chris_girard
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I first read about this formula in Brion Toss' excellent book, The Rigger's Apprentice. I use it all the time when splicing double-braid rope.
If you don't like using fids to figure out how long a tail to bury in lines like polyester and nylon, use this formula by Christian Gruye (Brion's wife):
Make a splice tail that is 24 times the dia. of the rope and a simple way to figure it is this; find the rope dia in sixteenths of an inch, increse the numerator by half, and bury the result in inches.
eg; if you have 1/2" rope, that would be 8/16". Since 8 plus half itself is 12, you'd bury 12".
How simple is that? Thanks Christian and Brion for telling us about this. Maybe I should have titled this thread Christian Gruye Buried Splice Formula.
If you don't like using fids to figure out how long a tail to bury in lines like polyester and nylon, use this formula by Christian Gruye (Brion's wife):
Make a splice tail that is 24 times the dia. of the rope and a simple way to figure it is this; find the rope dia in sixteenths of an inch, increse the numerator by half, and bury the result in inches.
eg; if you have 1/2" rope, that would be 8/16". Since 8 plus half itself is 12, you'd bury 12".
How simple is that? Thanks Christian and Brion for telling us about this. Maybe I should have titled this thread Christian Gruye Buried Splice Formula.
