Ocean Poly 10mm

[Jamie]

As i'm well out of the splicing mindset, was anyone doing anything special when splicing up 10mm ocean poly, just found it brutally hard (or maybe i'm just really soft these days)

 

jamie

[Tommy_B]

I'll be interested in this. I had a good at some 8mm yesterday and couldn't manage it. I just couldn't get the core back through the cover. Swearing and sweating didn't work so I was out of ideas.

[High Scale]

Trouble with the bury?

 

How many cover strands are you removing?

 

Had no trouble with this 8mm.

[old snake]

Very nice carl.

I'm about 50/50 with OP. Some times there easy as all the rest and then the other times there a complete nightmare!!

Inserting the core back into the cover during the second crossover is where I get the problem. It tends to tighten the cover up so much so you can't get the core through.

The only advice I've got for when this happened is to just keep massaging the cover and a bit of shocking it.

 

Not had any issues with the 10mm though. I tend to get the problems when splicing e2e's or when splicing onto a pinto. It's as though your running out of slack in the jacket?

[Jamie]

How many cover strands are you removing?

 

I'm doing it as a standard class1, and were you meaning on the original bury or where the core passes through the throat?

 

admitedly i've only tried the once and had to go do something else.

 

Jamie

[High Scale]

I can't really add more than Old Snake, it can be a real bitch to splice.

[Dak]

I nip out the odd strand when core is in the fid, helped bury the core when passing it through the throat.

 

OP should be sectioned, Its got a split personality!

[DrewB]

10mm i find almost too easy-feels like something is wrong but the 8mm can be a bitch sometimes. real surprised your struggling with the 10mm Jamie-thought youd rip that stuff up bro

[Jamie]

I rarely splice any more drew, i do on average one days tree work a month now. my day to day life is working in rope access and they dont splice kernmantle ropes, all fig of nines. ropes are now consumable items, some only get used once.

 

Jamie

[DrewB]

Fair does bro, hope your enjoying the new direction:)