Originally Posted by
Phillip Stojanik
Jerry,
The first photo does look to me like a grouping of the individual strands that make up the individual cable tendons.
It looked like a grouping of individual strands to me, however, a grouping of strands is not strands wrapped around a much larger single center cable - as would be with the pattern shown in that photo.
Besides ...
The steel in the tendons used around here are typically about ½ to 5/8 inch in diameter
If that "cable end" is 1/2" or 5/8" ... how big is that brick above it?
Look at the size of the 1/2" or 5/8" cable (assume that is what it is) and look at the relative size of that 3/8" mortar joint. Is that mortar joint, which is about twice as thick as that rust spot, really 1" or greater?
How big would that brick be if that mortar joint is 1" or greater? HUGE!
I really doubt it.
and are comprised of several individual strands about the thickness of a 16d nail each and all grouped together within a plastic sheathing. The sawn end of the cable looks just like that dot pattern in the first photo.
Are you seeing something different?
Yes.
I am seeing something smaller than 3/8" in diameter, maybe more like 3/16" to 1/4" in diameter or less.
Which is why I say it is not a cable - I've never seen a PT cable that small.