Splicing friction cord

[Davej023]

Alright am just trying to gather up some info on splicing eyes into climbing lines. I was wondering how short can u splice friction cord eye to eye? Using either silverstreak or boa.

 

Cheers Dave

[Peter]

Bury on class one doublebraid is usually around 22 times diameter, so for 8mm cord you will need 176mm for each splice. So technically the shortest eye to eye sling you could make is 352mm. However the spliced part of the cord will not perform well as a hitch, so really you are looking at making a sling with stiff legs 6 inches long.

 

A better option if you really must do away with knots is to buy eye to eye slings with stiched eyes.

[Davej023]

Ah ic. I was just wondering for making up friction hitches, am far to tight to shell out for eye to eye lol

will just have to make do with fishermans :-(

cheers

[Jamie]

Samson recommend eye eye slings with standard buries shold be 5 fid lengths (110x rope diameter, ten mm rope should be 1.1m long eye to eye)

 

I use a blaskes on my short length of line with a spliced eye in silver streak.

 

Jamie

[High Scale]

Bury on class one doublebraid is usually around 22 times diameter, so for 8mm cord you will need 176mm for each splice. So technically the shortest eye to eye sling you could make is 352mm. However the spliced part of the cord will not perform well as a hitch, so really you are looking at making a sling with stiff legs 6 inches long.

 

A better option if you really must do away with knots is to buy eye to eye slings with stiched eyes.

 

352mm, 8mm with an eye splice on both splice on both ends? Nightmare to splice, it was difficult to splice my 8mm cord and that's 6700mm long.

[Peter]

Yes, I was thinking of what is technically possible, even if you could do it it would be unusable as hitch cord.

 

Might have a go though, just to see if it can be done. The measurements would have to be spot on.

[High Scale]

Yeah I think I will let you struggle on that one.

[High Scale]

Samson recommend eye eye slings with standard buries shold be 5 fid lengths (110x rope diameter, ten mm rope should be 1.1m long eye to eye)

 

I use a blaskes on my short length of line with a spliced eye in silver streak.

 

Jamie

 

Is a fid length not 21 diameters? 105mm rope diameter?