What is the angle factor for a 120-degree sling angle?

What is the angle factor for a 120-degree sling angle?

• A. 1.73
• B. 1.41
• C. 1.0
• D. 2.0

Answer: (C)

Angle factor shows how much the sling’s capacity must be adjusted when the legs aren’t vertical. It reflects how the load is shared between the legs as the sling forms a wider angle. For a symmetric two-leg sling, a very wide included angle tends to bring the factor toward 1.0, and in the standard chart used here the 120-degree sling angle is listed as a factor of 1.0. That means, in this context, you use the baseline capacity without applying an extra multiplier for this particular angle. The other options represent higher multipliers that would apply to more acute angles where the legs bear more of the load individually.

Angle factor shows how much the sling’s capacity must be adjusted when the legs aren’t vertical. It reflects how the load is shared between the legs as the sling forms a wider angle. For a symmetric two-leg sling, a very wide included angle tends to bring the factor toward 1.0, and in the standard chart used here the 120-degree sling angle is listed as a factor of 1.0. That means, in this context, you use the baseline capacity without applying an extra multiplier for this particular angle. The other options represent higher multipliers that would apply to more acute angles where the legs bear more of the load individually.