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    Posted: 26 Jan 18 at 11:14am

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Just an update..

Nine hours.. NINE HOURS!!! I spent last sunday trying to splice test bits of rope with pretty much no success.

The Rooster Easy Splice as recommended in this thread just arrived. literally 3 mins later I'd successfully spliced it with just a bit of old wire.  This stuff really is ridiculously easy to splice.

I know the splice is short.. It was just a test and I didnt want to use too much of it. No idea as yet how it will perform in the cleats but for splicing, it really is 'EASY'




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my experience was the same. my splice overlap came out shorter than suggested but after a season of hauling and tensioning all is fine.
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If it's that loose won't it shake out?  
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Originally posted by piglet

If it's that loose won't it shake out?  

In temptation of Murphy's Law and speaking to soon, mine show no signs of it, no

As soon as the line is in tension, the outer seems to grip the inner nicely
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It's when it's loose and flogging around that would worry me. 
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Originally posted by piglet

It's when it's loose and flogging around that would worry me. 

In the 100, Phantoms and the like, the elastic take-ups means that never happens.

No take-ups in the RS200, but still never had a problem.

It's inevitable that the splice finds it's way into the working part of the line for much of a race too, where it's under tension most of the time
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Originally posted by piglet

If it's that loose won't it shake out?  

I very much doubt that would happen, but as a precaution you could always put a couple of stitches in it.
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As indeed you appear to have done on your test piece  Wink
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I've a tangentially related question. How much slack do you leave in a system without elastic take-up? Just doing an rs200 and there doesn't seem to be a way to do a take-up, so length is more critical than on systems I've done before. Any suggestions?
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