HRC

[cory]

I've been playing around with HRC cord for a split tail, been using the knut (amazing knot!), and have a question: since HRC cannot be melted by flame, how do you "fix" the ends? With other less hi tech ropes I always would melt the tip and wrap it with electrical tape and it would be a virtually permanent treatment. I've tried just taping the HRC tips, but the tape doesn't hold the core and sheath solidly for a long time.

Ideas? And BTW, thanks to all those who have helped introduce hi tech cords and hitches to cavemen like moi.

 

[Paul Biester]

are you saying "it's so easy a cave man can do it??!!"

 

[cory]

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are you saying "it's so easy a cave man can do it??!!"

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So far, yes. Low and slow...

 

[banjo]

I whip the ends.

 

[cory]

Good idea. I've whipped other ropes but it was always more for the heck of it than it was because that's the only thing that would work.

 

[Blinky]

HRC is a piece of cake to splice. Liquid electrical tape will keep it from fraying.

 

[treedimensional]

Would large shrink tube do the trick?

 

[Waldo]

i have a butane kitchen torch, and that has melted everything it comes across so far. I've never experimented with the HRC cord yet, but i plan to. What does HRC stand for?

 

[Gypsy_Climber]

lock stitch and/or whip. I did both. I didn't use tape because I wanted to see that the core did not creep through the cover. I thought about splicing it, but I don't know of any directions on how to.

 

[countryboypa31]

HRC=Heat Resistant Cord

 

[UrbanTC]

Like Blinky said, "piece of cake to splice". Locking brummel for both eyes, whip/lock stitch and dip the eyes in maxijacket, bees wax or liquid electrical tape.

 

[UrbanTC]

another

 

[Tom Dunlap]

If you can't get a 3M Seizings [taped seizing] to hold then you might try some glue...liquid elec tape works but so would just about any other flexible adhesive. My preference is to use a marine grade or exterior adhesive. Pull out the core, cut off a bit, milk it back inside, goosh a gob of glue in and moosh it around the frayed ends of the sheath.

Make sure that you keep the adhesive on the tail so that it doesn't effect the strength of the rope. I've done this on a couple of ropes and twisted the glued sheath into a nice rat tail shape that makes for easy threading in knots.

Certainly, this isn't as elegant as a splice or seizing. But it does keep rope ends from ravelling.

 

[tod_k]

I think it's heat resistant cover.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

More info:

http://tinyurl.com/9sss5u

 

[countryboypa31]

I stand corrected Heat Resistant Cover

 

[KentuckySawyer]

Is that your splice, Jeremy?


Nicely finished.

 

[UrbanTC]

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Is that your splice, Jeremy?


Nicely finished.

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Yes it is. Thanks.

 

[tophopper]

Elec tape works fine for me with HRC.

 

[ChuckR]

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Elec tape works fine for me with HRC.

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For me too. Then, I like things electrical.