Marlow braid.

[Peter]

Not my rope Peter not that that is an excuse but it is only the second lowering rope I have ever broken, the first being made of Manila snapped lowering a large chunk of Euc in Oz.

 

Sorry, should have read your first post properly in the first place!

 

 

RE: whipping and lockstitching

 

The whipping is not a functional part of the splice.

 

As I understand it, if the lockstitching has been pulled through, as in the picture, the splice must have been sufficently shock loaded so as to start pulling the rope apart into seperate strands internally. If you put a straight pull on a double braid splice it pulls the eye further inside the rope. To pull it out the actual construction of the has to break down. If this is the case then I would certainly retire the sling. If it has been suffciently loading so as to break a lowering rope, considering that the force on the sling was double that on the rope, the cycle to failure has almost certainly been broken. Further use of the sling is a game of roulette.

 

This is partly why I have gone over to tenex rigging slings. They are cheap, and easy to splice, so I can make up a sling for every occasion, and I dont mind replacing them frequently.

[High Scale]

Thanks for putting it in plain English Peter I was using a Tenex loopie for the second pulley but as it was not the highest one it survived.

 

What size Tenex do you use for your slings Peter?