Wire & Rod Rigging
We have the tooling in house to enable us to roll swage fittings onto wire diameters from 2mm to 16mm. We also stock all the wire and fittings to enable us to produce any of these sizes from stock.
We stock 3 different types of wire, depending on its use.
The most commonly used wire for standing rigging on boats, or balustrade systems is 1x19 stainless steel wire, which is, as its name implies, made up of 19 individual strands made up of 1 wire.
Consequently it is very stiff.
If the wire is to run around corners, or sheaves, we would normally use 7x19 stainless steel wire, which is made up of 7 wires, each made of 19 smaller wires. As you could imagine each wire is tiny and consequently the whole wire is fairly flexible. This is used most commonly for wire or wire/rope halyards! keel wires and steering systems.