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As you know, Loos & Company manufactures plastic jacketed aircraft cable. Jacketing aircraft cable can provide added cable smoothness in cycling applications, extra corrosion resistance in extreme environments, and added fatigue life if necessary. Jacketed aircraft cable is often used in making cable assemblies, be it for exercise equipment, mooring cables, aircraft flight controls, or any other application where the added benefits of the plastic jacketing can be of use.

Loos & Company is proud to offer stainless steel lashing wire. Lashing wire is used to "lash" an overhead or aerial cable to a supporting strand. Loos & Company produces the highest quality stainless steel lashing wire in a variety of grades for Telecommunications, Utility, and Cable Television installations. To learn more, visit our Lashing Wire web page.

We would like to begin by thanking all of the respondents to our EXERFLEXPRO® Fitness Cable Survey. Here at Loos & Company, we consistently work diligently to ensure that our products and service are the best in class, and the results from this survey will surely help us continue with this tradition. With that, we would like to congratulate our winner:

Last month, The HotWire published an article on Accessing product data sheets online. Upon review, we realized that we weren’t very specific as to what you can do with those data sheets once you’ve found them. Here’s a quick rundown of the methods you can use to distribute the information on our product data sheets.

If you are an avid reader of The HotWire (and we assume that you all are), you will remember a recent post about the many different reels we use to store and ship our aircraft cable or wire rope (The Reel World).  After reading the article, you probably asked yourself: How do I specify the exact size of reel that I would like used for my order?

Here at the HotWire, we are often asked technical questions about our products from customers and readers alike. In the realm of our journalistic responsibilities, we like clearing up any confusion they may have. With that, we present this week's Frequently Asked Question:

Looking through wire rope catalogs and scanning wire rope websites, you may come across aircraft cable advertised as Made in Accordance with “the technical strength requirements of”, or “stranding and mechanical properties of” a particular military specification. Here at The HotWire, we take special notice of this claim. In many instances, the cable that is being advertised is actually commercial grade aircraft cable and the phrasing of the claim, while technically accurate in many cases, can be misleading.

The LoosCo Stretch Calculator is the first release in the Loos Mechanicals line of mobile applications designed to assist the wire rope and aircraft cable professional in the field. The Stretch Calculator application provides real time wire rope and aircraft cable elastic stretch estimates based on construction, diameter, length and load inputs provided by the user. The application allows you to calculate the estimated stretch of your assembly or sling right in the palm of your hand. 

For over thirty years Loos & Company has manufactured and perfected its Canveyor® cable line. Our design is what makes the difference.