7X7 3.2mm Stainless Steel Wire Rope - G316 Marine Grade This is the most common wire used to construct balustrading - used by both Professionals and DIY's. Other uses extend to

Balustrade (Vertical or Horizontal) Orchard Wires Clothes Lines Load Tie Downs Shade Sails Struts, Luff Wires Trapeze Wires Control Cable ...and whatever the creative genius can imagine.

It is a flexible wire making it easy to work with, and has a low co-efficient of stretch. Its ease of use makes it excellent for use with Thimble and Ferrule fittings as well as hydraulically swaged fittings.

Our international supplier is dedicated to high carbon wire and rope manufacturing. Their long experience of wire and rope manufacturing enables them to design and manufacture wire and rope with optimal balance between high tensile strength, fatigue resistance, abrasion resistance, and structural stability. The added bonus is that they provide a special treatment for bright and smooth surface of wire and cable to deliver a truly top-shelf, long lasting product that will look new for ages...

A quick lesson in Stainless Steel Wire Rope...

As indicated in the pictues, the 7x7 indicates the structure of the wire. Our product is constructed from 7 thin wires twisted together in a substrand, then 7 substrands are twisted in a silky smooth finish. The total is 49 individual wires twisted together constructing a single strand of our premium wire.

Two other common 3.2mm wire strand constructions are:

1x19, which indicates 1 strand formed by 19 individual wires twisted together (also used for balustrading to provide negligible stretch and minimal flexibility - and for this wire we recommend only hydraulically swaged fittings); and

7x19, which indicates a collection of 133 individual wires which are grouped as 7 substrands of 19 wires each - then twisted together into 1 strand.

...Simply put, the more wires that are twisted to make a strand, the more flexible the strand of wire becomes.