The slings with swaged sockets’ ends (steel wire rope with swaged ends) have a 10% of MBL loss of the steel wire rope utilized compared to spelter sockets. Even in this case there’re various use applications: bracing, structural guy ropes, coupled slings, boom hoist slings, and so on.
Standard swaging sockets are: open type (fork with pin), closed type (with eye) and with metric or UNC threaded pin.
SIRTEF is able to manage special customized swaging sockets for any possible need.
