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Aus-Kiwi


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A device for measuring certain properties of hemp rope, tarred or otherwise?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_rope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_(rope)

 

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Here it is (rope gauge):

http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page94.html



-- Edited by dorian on Sunday 19th of December 2021 10:33:01 AM

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well used as well

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Yes rope , cable , even chain gauge .

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Prob wire cable, since it was used by the State Electricity Commission in Victoria.

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Up here NSW too. SCC, Ausgrid.

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