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  1. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    You are never allowed to put a load close to the breaking strength on any gear/rope. Far from that. If you plan to load as much your rigging or anything, you seriously have to reconsider your way. The purpose of the stitching is to keep the construction in good order under no or light load...
  2. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    A crochet hook, used to make the lace. The hook's size is function of the thread's diameter. It allows to grab the loose thread on the back of the lace and pull it through toward the front without catching the already woven ones (actually just the same thread from start to finish)..
  3. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    Super thick heat shrink and layed with hotglue inside. With just the bare tube, it will slide on the rope, even if well shrinked.
  4. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    No, it's new to me. But It seems that putting a knot in a splice defeat two main purposes of the splicing principle: streamling and retaining most of the rope's strength (if not all).
  5. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    Look at that: https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/locking-brummel-using-one-end-of-the-rope.23154/
  6. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    I missed an info, was the splice rubbing on something or is it internal abrasion, by the fibers movement under load? Internal would tore the stitching but not move away the whipping.
  7. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    If we can make a parallel with the rated slings, round or linear, their WLL is downgraded to 0.8x when set in chocker mode, instead of 2 in basket mode.
  8. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    I do that too for the rope's cuts. But my post was about protecting the lockstitch of the eye splice to avoid destroying it by rubbing on the bark.
  9. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    The electric tape doesn't stay long. It's too thin and fragile. A few rubs on the bark and it's teared away. But it leaves its messy gum on the rope as a reminder of why you shouldn't use that. At the opposite, the paracord makes too thick of a layer. It will catch on the bark and be slided...
  10. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    No risk to cut the eye with the edges? It seems a tad too sharp and wide for me (it makes two small radius angles on the rope).
  11. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    Me too. Just taking out the core is a problem. Him, no worry, two movements and here it comes.
  12. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    For the ultrasling, as I see it, the 2 brummels are locked together if pulled in one direction (pulling each rope going through the eye on the other) but can slide away in the other direction (pulling each rope by the eye side). That gives the possibility of some movement, so more wear can be...
  13. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    The way it relies on the brumels is disturbing for me, I don't feel that the fibers work ideally, but why not. I may have a try.
  14. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    Tommy, it's a strange looking area between the whipping and the eye, like you reduced the eye's size by a stitch.
  15. Marc-Antoine

    How's the splice today?

    :goodjob:
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