Testing Committee

By Charles Lucas, Chair

The Testing Committee finalized the protocol for testing roundslings on different corner radii. The Board of Directors has approved the protocol and authorized expenditures to complete the testing. A letter was sent to all roundsling manufacturing members of WSTDA requesting volunteers to submit the sets of 78 roundslings. We have received and accepted the offer from 5 member companies to donate the roundslings. Our thanks for providing the slings to:

Lift-All Co.
Liftex Corporation
Unitex USA
SpanSet Inc.
Lift-It Manufacturing

The testing will take place at Sherry Laboratories in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

We have not been able to develop a nomogram for the WLL reduction of web slings on different sizes of rounds due to problems with AWRF’s Sling Analyzer.

The Committee recommended the following new products to the Board for consideration:

Reformatting the Web Sling Video to DVD (now available)

Rewriting Mil Standard 4108A to update the language and testing procedure

Establishing a relationship with an independent testing laboratory that members could use to certify their products.

One of our earlier suggestions to put all standards on CD has already been done and is now available through the WSTDA office.

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