Ropey

Drew,

Just for your info mate, a climber in OZ has just set the OZ foot locking record and bet his personal best by over 1 sec using 10mm Armor Prus as the main line. He claims he missed timed the jump for the bell and if he had this right would have taken out the word record.

I am just trying to get you cell as I have a guy in timaru who is looking for some splicing to be done on Spark.

I would tend to agree with Drew, 10mm is really for the big US lines 13mm+

For the likes or Blaze (MM) and the Euro lines 11-MM the MM is best in the Amour Pris con fig. It tend to bit well enough but not too much.

I also like the tapering of the cover and letting it milk down with the core when doing a type II splice. I think this gives it a good finish. You should always lock stitch your splice as well.

Have fun but remember that this splice is the most critical, if it lets go you are in all sorts of trouble so unless you are confident in your splice, don't climb on it.

Jamie,

Just had an interesting question I thought I would run past you.

The Armor is technically a Type II or core dependant product thus should us a type II splice however with the introduction of teh technora in the cover this has greatly increased the cover strength,

As a prussic line I would have though a Type I Db splice would be OK for this and give a better finsihed result.

What do you think?

Tony

Oakman,

The product is actually a Class II product as the core is stronger than the cover so you should use a class II splice. You may want to check with Drew but I think you would be OK using a Class I as well as the cover is also very strong and this would make a better finish splice. The product is way over rated for its use.

I will check with Jamie as he may have some pointers