Alloy And Carbon Steel Chains In Our Daily Life
As we know that in the transportation industry, the industry standard truck chains basically have tie down chains and tire chains, while we will see there are more than just truck chains, there are proof coil chains, high test chains, twisted link chains and more, all these chains are made from steel.
In most cases tie down chains equal to grade 70 chains , aka binder chains it’s well known that we have 2 different standard orgs for steel chains, ASTM and National Association of Chain Manufacturers. The ASTM standard requires chains to be short link, NACM usually means regular link chains. Short link and regular link chains have same strength, the only difference is flexibility, when you’re deploying chains under certain conditions, say wrap around tight corner, most likely you will need short links, regular link chains probably will not fit. We can see that most tie down chains are being deployed on the trailers, most of the time for securing truck load, but you will see some other uses of these transportation chains.
Tire chains and snow chains are the same thing under most circumstances, obviously tire chains don’t equal snow chains, for instance, you probably will put tire chains on when the road is icy. We always see tire chains sold in pairs, the reason is that people need to chain up tires in pairs. For the obvious reason, all tire chains are made from steel. People choose tire chains based on their vehicle type and tire size, if you have a passenger car you will be looking for car tire chain, You will need truck tire chains if you drive a pickup with big wheels.
And the hardware chains are a big category, you’re going to see all kinds of chains in this family of product. Let’s see some examples, such as twisted link machine chain or straight link machine chains, and twisted and straight link coil chains, sash chains, grade 30 electro-galvanized and hot-dip galvanized chains, and steel decoration chains, of course there are more steel chain product. These chains have their own features and special use case, grade 30 chain is the most popular general purpose chain, for instance, you can use grade 30 chains with windlass or fence.