<div dir="auto">19x7 is pretty uncommon in theatre and the Mil-Specs at Nicopress don’t talk about it.</div><div dir="auto">Nicopress does make an oval sleeve for non-rotating cable, but it is for XLT4, a completely different wire rope construction.</div><div dir="auto">I expect you can do it, with the big question being termination efficiency. Finding a number on that won‘t come easy unless you are going with the type of fittings, swagging tools and methods used for construction lifting, instead of the nicopress-style approach.</div><div dir="auto">Interestingly it seems 19x7 is nominally not as strong as 7x19 and there’s a trade-off for the additional flexibility.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bruce</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 09:37 Tom Hackman via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Howdy-<div>I am looking to replace the wire rope on a cheap hoist in our scene shop used for positioning and flipping materials. The current cable is 5/32 or 3/16 rotation-resistant wire rope. Can the rotation-resistant stuff be swaged in the same fashion/tools as standard 9x17 wire rope? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tom</div></div>
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