- Location
- Orange, MA
So after hours of toiling with tape and trying to make fids out of old electrical wire and the likes, I finally grabbed some probably 16g steel baling wire I guess you'd call it from work, and using some info I gleaned from NickfromWI's long reply on splicing 16 strand I found buried somewhere here in the forum, easily buried the tail on some NE hi-vee.
The trick I got from that was to just simply pull an inch or so of the tail through the eye of the wire fid, fold it over, and pull away. Took me less than 5 minutes to bend the wire, fish it through the line, stick it in a vise and pull the tail through.
Now my main curiousity is simply, how much easier does NEW line splice compared to old line? I'd take a picture to show you the condition, but its probably not worth it. Rope was probably a year old, and it looks like its semi-covered in a mix of pine pitch and dirt, no puffs or frays in the area I was splicing.
I'm hoping there is a large discrepancy between splicing old vs. new, if so, its REALLY encouraging, seeing as I only mildly broke into a profuse sweat yanking the tail through.
That is all, thank you!
The trick I got from that was to just simply pull an inch or so of the tail through the eye of the wire fid, fold it over, and pull away. Took me less than 5 minutes to bend the wire, fish it through the line, stick it in a vise and pull the tail through.
Now my main curiousity is simply, how much easier does NEW line splice compared to old line? I'd take a picture to show you the condition, but its probably not worth it. Rope was probably a year old, and it looks like its semi-covered in a mix of pine pitch and dirt, no puffs or frays in the area I was splicing.
I'm hoping there is a large discrepancy between splicing old vs. new, if so, its REALLY encouraging, seeing as I only mildly broke into a profuse sweat yanking the tail through.
That is all, thank you!
