BS 2763:1982

Foreword
Cooperating organizations
Specification
Section one. General
1 Scope
2 References
3 Definitions
4 Information to be supplied by the purchaser
5 Inspection and testing
6 Identification and packaging
Section two. General purpose rope wire
7 General
8 Manufacture
9 Dimensional tolerances
10 Mechanical properties
11 Zinc coating
Section three. High duty rope wire
12 General
13 Manufacture
14 Dimensional tolerances
15 Mechanical properties
16 Zinc coating
Tables
1 Tolerances on nominal diameter of general purpose
    rope wire
2 Tensile strength grades and nominal diameter ranges
    for general purpose rope wire
3 Tensile strength tolerance above the specified
    minimum for general purpose rope wire
4 Minimum number of twists (in a length of 100 x
    diameter of wire) in torsion tests of general
    purpose rope wire
5 Minimum number of reverse bends in reverse bend
    tests of general purpose and high duty rope wire
6 Zinc coating tests: minimum mass and minimum number
    of dips in uniformity test, for general purpose and
    high duty rope wire
7 Tolerances on nominal diameter of high duty rope
    wire
8 Tensile strength grades and nominal diameter ranges
    for high duty rope wire
9 Tensile strength tolerance above the specified
    minimum for high duty rope wire
10 Minimum number of twists (in a length of 100 x
    diameter of wire) in torsion tests of high duty rope
    wire

Requirements for cold drawn round carbon steel wire as used for the manufacture of wire ropes intended for general purposes as well as those subject to more exacting service conditions.