Life Lines - Replace pull rings in snap shackles

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Maintenance management system for Namadgi 3

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Life Lines - Replace pull rings in snap shackles #619

Open smr547 opened 1 year ago

smr547 commented 1 year ago

@pauljones17 reports

The lifelines and entry/egress point snap shackles need a thorough check and distorted rings replaced.

This is an ongoing problem -- lets fix it again at the working bee.

Is there a permanent solution?

pcbaston commented 1 year ago

Snap shackles should be pelican hooks for life lines. The fix is the small sized split rings of about 10-15mm diam thickest possible to withstand abuse (such as this from whitworths: https://www.whitworths.com.au/stainless-steel-split-ring ).

A suitable substitute for snap shackles on entry points: https://www.whitworths.com.au/stainless-steel-economy-pelican-hook-91mm which could be swaged to length by CORC members. This would alleviate the 'abuse' of split rings.