Yale Blaze

[Vertical Lmit]

A few months ago I changed my 45m xtc for the new Yale Blaze. After climbing for about 8 hours on what seemed a nice light rope, the outer sheath came away from the inner core leaving me with an end of rope with 1mtr of core missing and a large portion of bunched outer sheath in the centre of the rope. This then stuck fast in the friction hitch on descent. The rope in question was then sent back. 6 weeks on I am still without explanation from my arb dealer or yale and no offer to repace clearly a hazardous piece of kit.

Can anyone else confirm problems with this rope!!

Might be time to name and shame the arb supplier in question. No connection to this site that i am aware of Steve.

[Steve Bullman]

sorry mate, no naming and shaming here....did you contact yale direct?

[Vertical Lmit]

Waiting for a reply from Yale at the moment mate. All a very poor situation.

[Steve Bullman]

they should have replaced the rope on the spot IMO

[Pete Mctree]

Are you refering to the sheath of the rope stretching and settling ? Both of my ropes have done it and if normal on some cordages

 

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3654

[Bundle 2]

Its always a shame to hear this sort of thing, actually quite surprising in this instance....there's always the exception that proves the rule.

Personally, I found the rope to be of the highest quality. I thought of it as having a generally very good reputation. Even more reason then to find it somewhat stupefying that Yale have not simply replaced the rope and apologised for the inconvenience....Good luck .

[bob]

at work there are 8 of us on blaze and never had a problem like that

I was very suprised to read that

i have milked no more than 10 inch of any blaze

and always off the end

[Rupe]

Where else would you milk it from, the middle??

 

You can easily get a meter of sheath if you milk it hard enough, and this should be done to prevent the sheath hocking up in the middle.

 

There wasn't a meter of rope with no core, there was just a meter extra sheath than core, its not dangerous if you inspect your kit.

[Steve Bullman]

hmmm rupe is spot on....i read this in a hurry this morning.

[Mesterh]

Surely its from poor manufacturing?

 

Shouldn't it already be stretched at the factory, if there were an eye spliced on each end you would have to loose one of them.

 

I had a new england Hi vis do this on me fooked the spliced eye end up, ended up cutting it to bits by accident before i could take it back