overloading a nylon rope wen rigging.

Question by ducoin Reward: 100 Pond Points + 10 Knowledge Tokens Status: Pending a resolution
A rigging Q. If you suspect that your nylon rope was overloarded wen lifting a load. What is the correct action to take.
A. Change rope
B. Mesure dia of rope to see if it's still to specification.
C. Check if any wire broke in a strand . and is it still correct to use it



Reply from Dave User Rating:  84 Knowledge Tokens
A. Change the rope.

Overloading can cause hidden damage to the rope that can cause it to fail in the future.
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Reply from toddsteppenwolf User Rating:  2640 Knowledge Tokens
i agree 100% with dave!!!!!

A. Change the rope.

Overloading can cause hidden damage to the rope that can cause it to fail in the future.

used your reasoning dave, cuz no way to word it any better, lol
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Reply from leakywelly User Rating:  2550 Knowledge Tokens
actually health and safety say to measure the rope diameter and check it
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Reply from leakywelly User Rating:  2550 Knowledge Tokens
the main check is to compare before ond after diameter and length of rope and then check with safety details of rope and the tollerances of overall length stretch and diameter decrease.
SO if in any doubt check it first.
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