I believe Chris uses Gudebrod GX2 a lot. Gudebrod is coming out with a GX3 soon which is even narrower.
At 09:44 AM 9/10/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Recently, my buddy who works for Thyssen Elevator showed me a piece of Kevlar
rope they're now using in new medium height elevators. It was no bigger around
than your index finger, about the size of a heavy climbing rope. The strength
of that stuff is incredible.
Thanks for the explanations, Henk.
Mark
--- Henk Verhaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was known for a > very long time that intrinsically, carbon-based polymers are much > stronger than steel, tensile-wise... > ... > One solution to this was the aramide fiber (TWARON, KEVLAR), in which > the polymer molecule includes rings that help align the molecules...
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