Broken needle - should I cut and resplice?

[kludge]

Hi gents,

I was working on splicing up a 1/2 lanyard in 16 strand. Going well until the whip lock.

I was pulling the needle through with visegrips. The eye bound up in the throat and broke off. So the eye of the needle is in the throat of the splice.

Should I cut off the splice and restart? Or is it ok with the broken bit of metal in the throat and I can just cut off the whip lock and move it down a bit? What would you do? Would you climb on it? Would you let someone else climb on it?

 

[Boomslang]

Cut it out. Sharp metal and rope fibers don't mix well and in a lanyard there will be a lot flexing and tensioning (i.e. a lot of movement of the rope fibers). Your life isn't worth the few feet of rope and hour of your time it will cost to resplice.

 

[kludge]

That was kinda what I was thinking.

 

[Tommy_B]

If there is any doubt, there is no doubt

 

[SeanRuel]

CUT IT!

 

[Naturarbo]

off with it

 

[evo]

How did I miss this?! If you can’t fish it out ditch it. Sorry to be blunt but if you have to ask, I would wait to learn how to splice.

 

[Tony]

You should read my first book!

I did a fair amount of research into this when I was structuring my plot.

(shameless plug there)

suffice to say, I agree with all above. If you can’t remove the metal, don’t use the splice.

Tony