{"id":419,"date":"2010-03-11T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:06:31","slug":"wire-grips-free-vs-fitted-lengths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wire-grips-free-vs-fitted-lengths\/","title":{"rendered":"Wire Grips &#8211; Free vs. Fitted Lengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Inquiries for wire mesh pulling grips come in from all over the place, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how local tradition will affect terminology.<br \/>\n  The length of a grip depends on where you&#8217;re standing.  If you&#8217;re reading a North American catalog, the length of the mesh is taken at the grip&#8217;s nominal diameter.  That is: it&#8217;s measured when it&#8217;s fitted around the cable it&#8217;s pulling.  This is the engaged length of the grip; the eye and the overall length are measured separately.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more Continue Reading This Post--><br \/>\n  Other locales will measure the &#8220;free length&#8221; of the grip, when it&#8217;s hanging on the wall.  The free length can be half-again as long as the fitted length, so it&#8217;s not a clear indicator by itself of the size of the grip in service.  The comparison below shows the difference: a free length of 35&#8243; can contract the mesh to just 21&#8243; when it&#8217;s installed.<br \/>\n  The wire weave of a pulling grip is flexible, and the grip will contract as the tube diameter increases.  Variation of a couple inches in the free length is typical, and the fitted length will vary depending on the actual diameter of the cable.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/MeshLength.jpg\" alt=\"MeshLength\" title=\"MeshLength\" width=\"510\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-422\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inquiries for wire mesh pulling grips come in from all over the place, and it&#8217;s interesting to see how local tradition will affect terminology. The length of a grip depends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[124,125,126,127],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-pulling-socks","tag-stockings","tag-wire-grips","tag-wire-mesh-grips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dcddesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}