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Never knowing what to expect with modern materials and having some very similar size steel and Spectra fishing line I checked them out. I tied a 5 meter length of each to a door handle with the other end on a cross piece made from a length of 3mm studding. The cables were 40mm apart and at the center point I had a 20N dynamometer (posh name for a spring scale) Starting with a preload of 2 Newtons where I the two lengths to be equal, I then increased the load by 20 Newtons (about 2kg). The steel stretched by 4mm and the Spectra by 7mm. increased. Both figures are very good and definitely usable although Spectra suffers from creep of about 2% per year at its rated working load.
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The spectra was 0.55mm diameter 100lb Spectra Extreme Braid. The Steel consisted of 7 bundles of 7 strands for a total diameter of 0.54mm in a 0.7mm diameter Nylon jacket.
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