Splicing Marlow Aeris

[ben-jammin]

Much swearing and wrecked hands later and it's done (save for taper and stitch the empty jacket in the lock whip stitching)

 

Thanks for all the help guys, not sure I'll be doing this one again anytime soon!!

[DrewB]

gets me how they came up with this splice in the first place!!

[rich_h]

a case of seeing if it could be done!

 

LOL...you nailed it Drew !!

 

This splice is actually reasonably fun as long as you keep the whole core together on a hollow fid for as long as possible. If you are real lucky you can actually do the whole thing with a hollow fid.....one of my Fly and Eye's was done that way..I haven't spliced the Marlow Aeris but I would imagine it would be similar...

 

I'll try to get a few pics of the process tomorrow as I have a few to do..

 

Incidentally, the Fly and Eye's are utterly worthless for anything other than a decoration as the sheeth melts after your first climb

Edited December 15, 2011 by rich_h

[WeeDee]

LOL...you nailed it Drew !!

 

This splice is actually reasonably fun as long as you keep the whole core together on a hollow fid for as long as possible. If you are real lucky you can actually do the whole thing with a hollow fid.....one of my Fly and Eye's was done that way..I haven't spliced the Marlow Aeris but I would imagine it would be similar...

 

I'll try to get a few pics of the process tomorrow as I have a few to do..

 

Incidentally, the Fly and Eye's are utterly worthless for anything other than a decoration as the sheeth melts after your first climb

 

Bloody hard work, just to see if it's possible and not of much use when it's finished!

 

Absolutely fantastic!

 

BTW Well done, Ben.

[WeeDee]

gets me how they came up with this splice in the first place!!

 

I know what you mean, a bit like 'frogs legs' - must have been awfully hungry to invent the dish!

[ben-jammin]

Thanks WeeDee, I really thought it had me stumped and it was your suggestion to bury it in sections which got it done so thank you again!

 

Think I'll be sticking to double braids and 16 strand dog leads from now on, I've got a fair list to catch up on now!

[rich_h]

I find that removing the core and then tapering the end and fixing to a hollow fid really helps with keeping this splice under control. Good rope management will save you a ton of stress on this sucker..

 

Also, once you pass the core back through the eye, out again and back over to the other side I find that keeping both core sections separated helps immensely for burying later as well as for performing the crossover.. I use a karabiner between the core sections as pictured.

 

When completing the final crossover, you can insert a smaller fid for the crossover amount and then either follow with larger fids until you hit the one you are taped onto or you pull the larger hollow fids out and use a wire fid in the pre-stretched crossed over area to pull the final cross. With the area pre stretched you can usually pull 7 of the 11 strands pretty easily on the first pull which leaves 4 for the next pull.. All the while you can grip the core where it initially exits the rope and pull a bit to create slack or to tighten to compress the core you are trying to cross...

 

This makes a hell of a lot more sense in person

[rich_h]

If you keep all the core strands from twisting it is actually pretty easy to get everything aligned where it should be....

 

After removing the excess sheeth section (cut on a 45 degree angle away from completed splice) I prefer to cover the throat with electrical tape to allow the whipping twine something to grip onto and then whip the full length of the frayed out sheeth... The end result isn't as pretty as a double braid, or 16 strand eye, but not too bad....

[DrewB]

What splice are marlow doing on the factory spliced rope? Just saws pic and it looked like a double braid splice.

[Rich Rule]

I had some of this rope when it first was tested. The splice looked like a double braid splice and nothing like anything you lot have posted.

 

I only took the picture as it seemed a bit lumpy and wanted an opinion as to why it hadn't been whipped. I think Dean, sent an email off to Marlow about it. Cannot remember what the outcome of the email was... sorry.