BS 6570:1986

Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
1 Scope
2 Rope construction and characteristics
3 Rope terminations
4 Associated equipment
5 Rope selection
6 Handling, storage and installation
7 Examination, maintenance and discard criteria
Appendices
A Publications giving guidance on specific usage of
    wire ropes
B Assessment of rope condition and discard criteria
C Diagrammatic illustration of possible defects to be
    considered during examination, with reference to
    different areas
Tables
1 Approximate efficiencies of wire rope terminations
2 Permanent constructional extension
3 Generally distributed broken wires: six and eight
    strand ropes in metal sheaves
4 Broken wires: multi-strand ropes in metal sheaves
Figures
1 Components of a rope
2 Examples of typical rope constructions
3 Typical Seale strand rope
4 Typical filler wire rope
5 Typical Warrington-Seale strand rope
6 Typical triangular strand ropes
7 Examples of multi-strand ropes
8 Ordinary lay rope
9 Lang's lay rope
10 Aide memoire to designations of lay
11 Measuring one rope lay in a six-stranded rope
12 Thimbles
13 Stirrup
14 Hand spliced eye
15 Bordeaux connection
16 Ferrule-secured eye termination
17 Correct method of fitting wire rope grips
18 Examples of swaged or pressed terminations
19 Open conical socket
20 Closed conical socket
21 Wedge socket
22 Proper method of locating rope anchorage point on a
    plain drum
23 Drum groove design
24 Sheave groove
25 Sheave rope guard
26 Maximum angle of fleet
27 Correct methods of paying out rope
28 Serving of ropes (before cutting)
29 Transferring rope from reel to drum

Guidance to users on general purpose steel wire ropes. Construction and characteristics, terminations, associated equipment, handling, storage, examination and discard criteria.