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- In this video we're gonna walk through
the inspection criteria
of a couple different wire rope slings.
What I have in front of me is a 7-Part Sling.
Where I'm gonna begin is with the identification tag,
making sure it's clearly legible and still attached,
have the name of the manufacturer,
the type of the sling, different capacities for the hitches
and our serial number or code number.
So with this type of sling, gonna begin making sure
that there's no broken wires
by running my hands across the body of the sling,
always wanna make sure you wear gloves
and be cognizant of the fact
that the wires will penetrate the skin.
So you wanna be real careful with that.
Wanna make sure our end fittings are secure, not damaged.
Making sure there's no kinks,
evidence of, again, heat damage,
which could be arc burns, weld splatter, chemical damage.
Make sure our wire are not rusted, corroded.
Make sure there's no high strands from snagging,
that type of damage.
And make sure the sling has not seen any kinking
from going around a sharp corner,
any evidence of small D/d ratio
or ratios that would deform the sling itself.
Now I'm gonna perform an inspection on a sling
that I would pull from service.
Again, I'm gonna begin with the identification tag.
It is still attached, however it is showing wear and tear.
I'm having trouble seeing some of the capacities
and the unique serial number that we've attached or code.
If you can wipe away the gunk on the tag
and reveal everything is legible, just fine.
What we wanna be careful about
is that you don't damage the tag anymore.
Right now I'm gonna hold this tag as questionable,
but I want to inspect the rest of the sling.
Starting in the eye, again,
gonna run my fingers across checking for broken wires.
See if I can open an eye to see if anything pops out at me.
Look at my end fitting, make sure it's still secure,
not cracked or damaged.
Running my hand carefully along, checking for broken wires.
Again, making sure we understand
that a broken wire can pierce the skin,
and we wanna be very careful with that.
Come down to this area,
see a couple broken wires popping out here.
If I can bend the sling, I'll move it around to see
if it reveals any other broken wires, and I'm seeing a few.
So again, work my way down through the rest of the sling,
checking the other end fitting.
Always looking for heat damage,
kinking that would not come out at a load.
And right now, what I'ma get to is with this eye,
it went around some sort of a pin
or perhaps a shackle with too small of a D/d,
permanently deforming the eye,
making it hard open and get a good inspection.
So I would fail this based on a nearly-illegible
to illegible tag and evidence of the broken wires
in the body of the sling.
If you see evidence of kinks
that you would not be able to remove under load,
that would be a criteria for failure.
However, if it is what we call a simple dogleg,
if that would be removed under load
and go to a true vertical hitch,
that would not be an issue for failure.