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TABLE B-3. Efficiency of Wire Rope Terminations.
Type Terminations
Efficiency*
Fiege connectors (only suitable up to 1% /" wire size)
85 percent
Wire Rope Clips (See NTSM 613 for number)
80 percent
Mechanical swaging
85 percent
Eye splice (hand-spliced)
21/4" and larger wire
70 percent
1%" to 2" wire
75 percent
1/8 to 11/2" wire
82 percent
7/. "to 1" wire
88 percent
Flemish eye ("Molly Hogan")
90 percent
*Efficiency is the strength of the termination divided by the nominal breaking strength of the wire
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