Spliced anything good lately?

[Peter]

Double braid, looks very similar to reigate, not sure how many strands in the cover without checking.

[Jamie]

how long were you wanting to make it to turn itinto a short sling. I think samson recomend 5 fid lengths from eye to eye with double braids . mine have all been slightly shorter however, no major problems apart from with teh marlow stuff, but i was able to splice it one handed:scared1:

 

Jamie

[Peter]

eye to eye 75 cm. 5 fids lengths at 10mm diameter would be 110cm if i calculate correctly.

Dont see why you shouldn't go shorter though, as a vt eye only has to support 25% of the total load on the climbing system....

[Ropey]

Pete,

 

Here some of my efforts. New Spark Arbor rope, First pic is a 16 plait cover dependent splice. (Samson)

This one used a modified double braid splice so I could keep the core in the eye to maintain the shape.

This shows a break at 28Kn = 2855kg which is not bad. (Approx 10% loss in strength)

Original break on new rope is 3204kg

The rope broke in the eye so both splices held well.

[Peter]

That looks good. How do you splice 16 strand with a DB type splice?

Does it eliminate the crossover part of the normal 16 strand splice?

[Ropey]

I was shown this so will try to explain.

Instead of pulling the core out at the X-over point it was pulled out where the cover reenters to form the loop (like DB splice), the core is then inserted back into the cover at the intersection point and threaded around the loop and back out at the back of the eye intersection point.

 

You then have the cover tail running down the center with the core. This was then tapered and lock stitch, seamed to work OK with the Spark but until someone that knew what they were doing perfected it I wouldn't recommend. It did however hold very well in the break test.

[DrewB]

nice work tony!!!

[DrewB]

my new rope guide i made.again:001_cool:

[Peter]

Does that cocoon pulley work ok with the ring then?

[bob]

here is a few some have no whipping some have concealed whipping and some are whipped and all have hurt my nice soft hands and caused a few headaches