Maybe we should suggest to Dutch to make the holes smooth and round
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I've been using 7/64 Amsteel with Whoopie Hooks since Dutch came out with them. I've never had any fraying. I'm fray-free!
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thats kinda what i'm thinking. It should do what it is made for without me having to modify it. Modifying it should be for when I use it for something other than its intended purpose! I wonder if these were just from a bad batch...
EDIT: Dutch has corrected the deficiency and the newer ones are improved to eliminate fraying
Last edited by spectactical; 04-23-2014 at 16:33.
[New hanger caveat]
I can see how fraying would/could happen toward the end of the loop where the whoopie hook spends its time under the most pressure with the whoopie sling...so I'm confused about the fraying elsewhere (or it looks to be elsewhere to me) on the whoopie slings.
FWIW - I would not swap for new hooks. Don't get me wrong, I like Dutch gear. That said I also noticed sharper edges than I like on it. Part of that is how the jam functions work but other places like on the hooks a more rounded profile would be kinder to the rope. The fraying is the result of polishing off some microburrs so the used ones are now better than new. ;-) A few sets off slings will finish the job.
The alternative is that you are seeing the effect of overloading the dyneema cord. You may be closer to the limit than you think.
YMMV
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