I couldn't find anything on the forum about the recommended bend radius for amsteel.
After a bit of digging, I came up with this paper from Samson:
http://www.samsonrope.com/get.php?file=490
In which they recommend that if amsteel is bent more than10 degrees over a surface that that surface should be no less than 3 times the diameter of the amsteel itself, and the say 4 times is better. There is some other interesting info in there too.
Was doing some splicing lately, which causes thought about what I was working on which caused research...
So 3 times 7/64 is 21/64, or rounded up slightly is 3/8".
Just wondering if anyone had done the homework on this... I'm sure that the this has been covered but I couldn't find anything...
Mark
Bookmarks