How's the splice today?

[lxskllr]

Fantastic splices and photography. As usual... :^)

 

[Tommy_B]

Fantastic splices and photography. As usual... :^)

Thanks mate

 

[Patrick A]

@Tommy_B
Do you use a wire/long steel rod fid for the drenaline?
I have been watching the splicing vids and all it seems to need is patience and a 50cm or longer wire fid

 

[Tommy_B]

@Tommy_B
Do you use a wire/long steel rod fid for the drenaline?
I have been watching the splicing vids and all it seems to need is patience and a 50cm or longer wire fid

I use a piano wire fid mate. New rope is super easy but this one was a bit tougher as the cores weren't sitting completely parallel. Push the fid up the outside with a bit of slack in the cover and it's fine

 

[Patrick A]

Thanks. I have a slightly used Drenaline that is the perfect candidate.

 

[cory]

My understanding from personal experience is used rope is a mofo to splice. Perhaps not so bad if it lightly used

 

[flushcut]

It ain’t fun either. Used rope just takes more time and is frustrating. One thing I’ve found is that having more line before your cleat is better. It seems that having more cover to work with helps final bury.

 

[cory]

Ha, used rope was the first and last time I did splicing. It came out well but yeah nah

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I spliced a used climb line once, a well used one, after a chainsaw(s nick.. The main problem for me was to extract the core. It was like glued inside. The inner strands were molded by the crushing action of the outer strands. The fibers were probably worn out too at each contact point, but they didn't show any major damage. The core seemed to have the surface of a threaded rod.

 

[Tommy_B]

I splice way more used rope than new. New rope feels like you've missed steps out it's that easy in comparison 🤣

 

[friedrich]

used tachyon… hmmmmm

 

[Eric H-L]

I spliced a used climb line once, a well used one, after a chainsaw(s nick.. The main problem for me was to extract the core. It was like glued inside. The inner strands were molded by the crushing action of the outer strands. The fibers were probably worn out too at each contact point, but they didn't show any major damage. The core seemed to have the surface of a threaded rod.

I tried used rope once also. I appreciate your descriptions which evoke my experience. One image I used for extracting the core was “like Velcro…”
I will never do that again unless it was some great emergency! It’s hard for me to imagine an urgent situation that I could not deal with using knots instead. Maybe stranded somewhere I can’t buy new rope. Lots of time but I need maximum strength out of a used rope.