Eye to eye hitch cord.

[High Scale]

Bury is around 10cm, can Ocean Polyester be spliced?

[Peter]

Yes, but its not the easiest, it has one of those funny inner cores.

[High Scale]

I don't get on with it myself, maybe I should try it again.

[Peter]

Have you tried the armor-prus yet?

[Gaynor]

Nice work. Do you take in alterations?

[Peter]

Nice work. Do you take in alterations?

 

Why, do you need your climbing line taking up?

 

Done that accidentally once or twice......

[Jamie]

Looks good carl,

 

we need to get a good close up of the eye and bury to see how smooth it is.

 

Stitched eyes have a number of benefits.

 

• it's done by machine and each stitched eye is therefore identical and machines don't generally have bad days, make as many mistakes etc like pople

• there is no extra cord to fatten and stiffen up the cord

• i'm sure insurance companies and LOLER prefers stitched eyes

 

the downpoints involve loss of human craftsmanship.

 

Large scale commercial splicing is slowly making way for solid eyes with the rope wedged into the eye.

 

Of special note Carl for the project you have just completed is that Samson recomend a minimum distance of 5 Fid Lengths between the extraction point on eye eye slings made from doublebraid. that would mean that on your 9mm cord you should have a distance of 945mm between eyes. (a fid length is 21 times rope diameter, 9 x 21 = 189, 189 x 5= 945) here is a link, scroll down to the minimum lengths section

 

i use Yales whiplock to stitch them as i think it looks nicer and is easier to inspect. i've had no damage to any of it.

 

Jamie

[Rupe]

Loss of craftmanship? Yes sure, I agree splicing by hand is a great skill.

 

Its just that 10cm of unuseable cord on each slice is no good for most knots.

[High Scale]

Thanks Jamie, 945mm damn, close but a little short.

 

I am hooked now.