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I don't know to be perfectly honest.Doesn't ospho contain a type of acid? How will it affect the fiber core that I've heard of inside these cables?
I will say this-I still have the wire rope on my first winch, I bought 11 years ago and it was treated in 2006 or 2007 and when I work the winch hard and the cable gets tight, it still squeezes grease out of the fiber core, so....................... I don't know how much of a conclusion to draw from that. Soon I'll be replacing that cable and when I do, I'll cut it open and see how the core looks. That cable is just about t the end of it's service life.
If a wire rope is rusty but otherwise good (no kinks, flat spots, unwinding, barbed wire, separation, etc.) I don't think you have a lot of choice. You can't wire wheel 200' of cable and even if you had that much vacation time stored up, you wouldn't get rid of all the corrosion. I think in this instance, risking some deterioration to the fiber core is worth it.