End to end ocean's vectron

[JTree]

I've got some ocean's vectron laying around and was considering making a couple of thimble loops, but I'm not seeing any instructions to do an end to end splice on this stuff. Doable or no? Feesable or no? Better off with something else?

 

[Worthaug]

It's got to be doable but seems that it would have to be a core dependant splice, in other words, you'd have to splice the vectran core and then cover it back up with the cover and stitch. Because this would make a loop only as strong as the core by itself it seems it would not meet the Ansi standard for life support. And since it's only 6 mm it's we ms that it would challenging to make the cover a part of the equation. I have made plenty of 8mm thimble loops with Ultra Tech by Samson...

 

[tuttle]

This is what I did recently using 6mm armor coated vectran, marlow v12, and kevlar 5mm, on the 8mm and 6mm thimbles.
These loops are easy to do as its only 12 strand, I also lock stitched the entire buries.

 

[JeffGu]

Very nice!