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  2. G. van der Lee Rope Factory - Wikipedia

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    Van der Lee’s product range, which is made using modern scutchers and braiding machines, now largely varies to include all kinds of ropes, yet the old craft still lives on at the G. van der Lee Rope Factory; hawsers for fisheries, water sport and replicas of VOC ships and the ropes are still twisted on the 350-metre long ropewalk.

  3. Steam and Gas Buffs make old fashioned rope at the Spokane ...

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    Sep. 15—Nevella Parris, age 10, spun a hand crank to wind three strings together, forming a colorful foot-long strand of rope for herself Wednesday at the Spokane County Interstate Fair, while ...

  4. Downs & Son - Wikipedia

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    The Downs & Son rope factory in circa 1907. In the early and mid 20th century, the factory was fully equipped with what was considered some of the most modern, up-to-date and efficient machinery of that time. [1] [3] [14] With an immensely large factory, they had numerous machines that would contribute to various stages in the rope making process.

  5. Top (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A typical Top used in rope making. A top is a hand tool with an iron loop and hook used in the creation and splicing of rope. A Top is used to simultaneously hold a piece of rope while providing a hole to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of a Top, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding ...

  6. Rope - Wikipedia

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    Rope may be constructed of any long, stringy, fibrous material (e.g., rattan, a natural material), but generally is constructed of certain natural or synthetic fibres. [1] [2] [3] Synthetic fibre ropes are significantly stronger than their natural fibre counterparts, they have a higher tensile strength, they are more resistant to rotting than ropes created from natural fibres, and they can be ...

  7. British Ropes - Wikipedia

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    All but one of these companies were wire rope manufacturers (the exception being Craven and Speeding, which mainly manufactured binder twine). Over the next two years seventeen more companies were acquired, including wire drawers as well as manufacturers of wire rope and fibre rope ; and the company began to invest in other ropemaking companies ...

  8. Rope-making - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 May 2012, at 04:47 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply ...

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