Upcycling rigging

[zoidberg]

Rummaging around the dark corners of my huge boatshed-cum-polytunnel, I discover quite an accumulation of 'replaced rigging' I've been saving JustInCase.
It's all 1x19 stainless, various diameters 3mm to 7mm, and mostly unsullied....

Can anyone here think of useful new purposes for any of it?

 

[RunAgroundHard]

1. Trestle wire to support climbing vegetables.
2. Patio decking fencing.
3. Rodding downpipes.
4. Mini poly tunnel arches, stuck into wooden beams, each side of the bed.
5. Splayed open and attached to chimney pots to keep crows and blackbirds from nesting.

 

[Caer Urfa]

on deck Jackstays

 

[scozzy]

I use old bits of mine suspended above/across back garden and bbq seating area for string lights and hanging clematis,looks pretty cool in the evenings and you don't really see it through the day

 

[MontyMariner]

Strands of SS wire often useful, cut to make staples, a foot or so length folded in two used along with fids as a cord puller.
Splay the end of a short length of 1x19 and use as wire brush in an electric drill.

 

[srm]

A friend took a set from one of my boats for a fence around a raised deck at his house.
Does it have any value with a scrap merchant? have never looked. The last lot went in the marina skip, but the guy helping me got a few quid at the scrap yard for the alloy roller reefing gears that we replaced.

 

[Keith 66]

Iron & steel about 18p per Kg Ordinary stainless 60p a kg, 316 grade £1.40 a kg.
Your problem is proving to the scrapyard what grade it is...

 

[zoidberg]

Iron & steel about 18p per Kg Ordinary stainless 60p a kg, 316 grade £1.40 a kg.
Your problem is proving to the scrapyard what grade it is...

I wish my problems were so simple....!

 

[Roberto]

Can anyone here think of useful new purposes for any of it?

I kept some of the mast and deck fittings and pins (one for every different cable size) to make an emergency stay/shroud: it's dyneema rope, one end is already spliced with thimble and will go at the mast with the suitable terminal, the lower dyneema rope end will be eye spliced to the proper length and will be tensioned by two of those Precourt/Colligo black anodized fittings H G and I. I can replace all single elements of the standing rigging.

Also, the central wire of a 1x19 cable is perfectly straight and once bent in two makes an excellent splicing tool.

 

[zoidberg]

I kept some of the mast and deck fittings and pins (one for every different cable size) to make an emergency stay/shroud: it's dyneema rope, one end is already spliced with thimble and will go at the mast with the suitable terminal, the lower dyneema rope end will be eye spliced to the proper length and will be tensioned by two of those Precourt/Colligo black anodized fittings H G and I. I can replace all single elements of the standing rigging.

Also, the central wire of a 1x19 cable is perfectly straight and once bent in two makes an excellent splicing tool.

Like it!

And as for the tip re the 'straight central wire'.... muy bueno!
I've made use of a length of 'very thin' wire from a piano and harp supplier, specifically for splicing 2.5mm s'braid Dyneema.

I like the look of the purchase you illustrate ( Precourt/Colligo fittings H,G,I ), for I'll need to tension a storm jib luff - and that looks suitable.

 

[Roberto]

Like it!

And as for the tip re the 'straight central wire'.... muy bueno!
I've made use of a length of 'very thin' wire from a piano and harp supplier, specifically for splicing 2.5mm s'braid Dyneema.

If you twist and turn the wire ends and add a bit of rope, you can then hook it somewhere or add another rope to a winch and apply all the tension you need

 

[zoidberg]

That's a whole lot cheaper than Marlow's Splicing Needles....

 

[William_H]

Emergency stay or shroud. I think that more often than not a stay will fail at the bottom. Possibly due to water getting in to the swage. In this case the fix while at sea would be to fold the wire back on itself to make a loop. You will need clamps to make it stay folded. Then use rope through the loop down to chain plate in some form. Roberto's ideas are fine but getting an attachment up the mast might be impossible. (all assuming mast is not already lost)
I have just replaced intermediate and cap shrouds on the little boat. By removing and delivering to our chandler who made up new ones . About 300squid for 4. Not the first time I have replaced stays. I reckon 15 years is good before replacement. The old wire is horrible stuff. So springy for any use apart from clothhes lines or similar stay type work. Yes my scrap metal man will take them. (probably what will happen. ) ol'will

 

[Neeves]

Like it!

And as for the tip re the 'straight central wire'.... muy bueno!
I've made use of a length of 'very thin' wire from a piano and harp supplier, specifically for splicing 2.5mm s'braid Dyneema.

I use the inner wire from a failed morse cable for splicing. I have one long one, about 0.75m and one short one, maybe 15cm.

Jonathan

 

[rogerthebodger]

I use the inner wire from a failed morse cable for splicing. I have one long one, about 0.75m and one short one, maybe 15cm.

Jonathan

I use a piece of TIG welding wire being 1.6 mm dia and stainless steel also good for threading wires through conduit