[SML] Question about Safe Working Loads

[Dave Vick]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Ford Sellers via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Are there different standards for different markets?  I know the Germans (for instance) are extremely conservative in their ratings, whereas I have heard that in the USA and Canada, ratios of 3:1 and 5:1 are common.


I've never heard of any rigging gear spec'ed at 3:1 for domestic
use... I see anywhere from 7:1 to 10:1 routinely, here in the Good Ol'
USofA.

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