Originally Posted by berner

I once worked in a composite shop where we did one off experimental projects for companies such as MacDonald Douglas or Boeing in Carbon fiber. On one job we had to hand sew stiffening ribs onto a base laminate before resin infusion. The material used to do the sewing was a Spectra thread that turned out to be very difficult to snip through with ordinary scissors. The shop had to but special scissors of a hardened steel. I've often thought bike cables, which are built up in a 7x1 configuration, where the 1 number is a core over which 6 strands of Spectra encase the core. Such a cable wold be un-snipable though an angle grinder could still get through eventually.