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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
Finished eyes with lock-stitch from cover yarn. Any critique would be very much appreciated... If I manage to get this break-tested, I'll be sure to post the result here...- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
Core taper (50% in one spot - Samson's instructions)- figuredwood
- Post #16
- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
I ended up using Samson's instructions (Class 1 DB) with Nick's excellent taper trick, and Brion Toss' trick of pulling out a single cover yarn at mark R to lock stitch the finished splice with. Because of that I removed single carrier strands in only seven of the strands in the first direction...- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
Would that style of taper need to start farther toward the tail than 8 strands because it is so much more abrupt than removing the double strand each direction every 5 strands?- figuredwood
- Post #10
- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
Thanks Nick for the explanation and the "pic", now I don't feel so "strand"ed with figuring this taper out. That's an interesting way of doing the taper with all one direction of strands first, then all the other direction after. Any advantages of doing it that way instead of alternating right...- figuredwood
- Post #9
- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ice Tail loop
Good call on the stitching, I should have thought of that before ordering 25' of Ice Tail... I'm not so worried about the stiffness... it will be backed up with a butterfly knot anyway and I'm sure it will be fine once it's set (my friction savers are Arbormaster so there is plenty of size...- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
Thanks for the great idea Nick. That would probably work on something like Tenex TEC too, wouldn't it? When you do your OP taper do you mark every 5th pair of strands, but only take one carrier strand out of each direction at that point? Thanks, Jason- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ocean Polyester eye and eye
OK... about to try my first Ocean Polyester splice (8mm). I have heard that it is OK to follow Samson's Double Braid Class 1 instructions for this. One question: what is the minimum sling length for this splice? Samson's instruction book states that "the minimum eye and eye sling length with...- figuredwood
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Ice Tail loop
I've used Tenex TEC for similar splices before. My idea was in this scenario, if the prusik loop became forced against the running rope in the ring, it would be less likely to become severely glazed or melted. I know I should be inspecting for such things before using the system each time, but...- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
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Ice Tail loop
Sorry if this has been posted before... I wasn't able to find any info on it: I'm wanting to splice a prusik loop with a captive ring out of Ice Tail for an adjustable ring & ring friction saver. Looking at Samson's splicing instructions I see that Ice Tail is a Class 2 12 strand splice...- figuredwood
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Pulleysaver funk
That looks good Martin, do you find that the Edelrid karabiner ever gets pulled up into the Pinto and damages the sheave?- figuredwood
- Post #17
- Forum: Climber's Talk
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End-for-end splice for pinto rig prusik
Will, did you use standard class 1 double braid end-for-end splicing instructions for you OP loop? I was thinking of ordering a bunch of 8mm OP but haven't done that type of splice before. Is it relatively straight forward? Your loop looks about 18" long, is that as short as you can get with...- figuredwood
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- Forum: The Splice Rack
