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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:06 am    Post subject: Winch cable source? Reply with quote

I've just been quoted £120 for a 13mm steel winch cable for my Superwinch E14P or £150 for 40m (it's the long drum version). These are with latch hooks.

These prices seem a tad on the high side - can anyone recommend an alternative supplier please?

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd suggest a google but at those prices it would be better to pay a few quid more and get a plasma
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LRS offroad do a plasma for not a lot more. Might be worth giving them or other winch retailers a call, they sometimes have steel cables laying around where people have ordered a new winch but wanted a plasma instead.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cynic-al wrote:
LRS offroad do a synthetic rope for not a lot more. Might be worth giving them or other winch retailers a call, they sometimes have steel cables laying around where people have ordered a new winch but wanted a synthetic rope instead.



Plasma is synthetic but not all synthetics are Plasma ...

Another vote for synthetic rope for play/competition use. I use Plasma and it's never broken under normal competitionuse but I've seen all the others shred quite easily.

Synthetic is defo worth the money.

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my apologies Smile

I think its one of those hoover \ vacuum things Wink

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I bought my last winch I replaced the wire rope with Plasma from new. I sold the wire rope for about £30!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cynic-al wrote:
my apologies Smile

I think its one of those hoover \ vacuum things Wink


Just spent the day in work pedant mode, suffering from spillover!!!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the first ever challenge event i did we had wire rope fitted not knowing any different, at the first section we had quite a few spectators until we spooled out. it wasnt til it snapped that we realised why they dissapeared.
to be honest they really are dangerous you would be better spending the money on some synthetic, rather than replacing your windscreen and digging shards of glass out of your eyes after the wire snaps.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 18, 2012 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you do want to refit a wire rope (synthetic is better) due cost or whatever.
just put "winch cable" in ebay search, there are a number of them on there at the moment
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Got my last wire cable from http://www.swindonlifting.com/

150 foot 8mm multistrand fibre core for £75 inc vat IIRC & my hook was swaged to the new cable too.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you got a lifting place nearby? I got a new winch wire for my winch and a new hook attached via thimble for £20!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ralph wrote:
Got my last wire cable from http://www.swindonlifting.com/

150 foot 8mm multistrand fibre core for £75 inc vat IIRC & my hook was swaged to the new cable too.



So that would make the OP's £120 for 150 foot of 13mm a good bargain by comparison...


Mind you my 8mm Dyneema cost me £99 for 150 foot and I know which I'd rather have Laughing
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