1 Scope
This Standard specifies items such as packing method, marking and quality certificate for steel wire ropes.
This Standard is applicable to general requirements on packing, marking and quality specification of steel wire ropes. If there are specific requirements in the product standard or from the demander, it shall be implemented according to corresponding requirements.
2 Packing
2.1 Generally, each piece of steel wire rope shall be individually packed.
2.2 Packing methods include the following three methods. The packing type shall be indicated in the Contract. If unindicted, it shall be selected by the supplier.2.2.1 Method I: packing without disc spool
Materials such as galvanized wire (or low carbon steel wire), steel strips or those without influence on the surface quality of steel wire ropes and that meet the requirements of bundling shall be adopted to bundle up the steel wire ropes firmly and uniformly; damp-proof materials shall be adopted to pack and wind them tightly. Metal wires (strips) are adopted to fasten the ends of packing materials; finally galvanized wires (or low carbon steel wires), steel strips or plastic packing strips are adopted to bundle up the steel wire ropes firmly and uniformly; whether transversal or longitudinal bundling (See Figure 1) to be adopted shall be considered according to sizes and weight of steel wire rope coils.
Unless otherwise specified, the weight of each coil of steel wire ropes shall not be greater than 500kg.
