Splicing/joining Lines

I see some of you are struggling to splice the marlow excel elite and excel racing that has a technora/poly blended cover.

It is easy.

Measure your continuous control line length and mark where you want the two ends to join.

Add 300mm for cover bury onto each end.

From the point where your join is going to be, move 400mm up the line on each side and tie slip knots. Make them tight, this is so you don’t loose cover/core tension.

At the end of each side remove 420mm of core from each side.

With the ends you wish to join, taper the last 100mm then wrap this tightly with a tapering length of brown 1” parcel tape.

Find the point about 120mm from your join point, stick a folded 0.8mm piece of welding wire/seizing wire up the empty cover from the point where the core finishes, exit at your join mark. Hook the last inch of your parcel tape through the wire, pull the whole thing out repeat the other side then stitch at the join and trim the ends off.

Tapering the cores, the length of the bury and the use of brown parcel tape make this so much easier.

Prep time = 15 minutes

Time per splice = 5 minutes

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?

Originally posted by piglet If it's that loose won't it shake out?

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