If you check the Yale Cordage pdf on making adjustable slings they say "Derate Rope tensile strength 12% when using adjustable splice" which is the number I have used. I suspect, like TeeDee and Hike4WD, that it's the "locked Brummel" that the Samson Whoopie uses for the eye that apparently derates the rope significantly more than the regular eye splice.
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Last edited by SlowBro; 07-06-2009 at 20:09.
Thanks TF I will try tonight at work.
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Dutch, The BPL Aircore that I have is identical to eight strand amsteel.
Has anyone tried this with Sypderline? I have more Spyderline left than I do Air Core. Not sure I'm sold on the utility of an entire Whoopie Sling but this thread has motivated me to do some eye splices. Who knows...I might try a Whoopie Sling just to see how I like it. Would at least work for an adjustable ridgeline.
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Hrm...maybe I'll salvage some old hammock supports I made from Air Core then. I can always replace a normal hammock support with Spyderline.
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For what's is worth, I too have been following these threads and have been trying to experiment with creating the splice. I don't have a fid or any knitting tools. Last night, I successfully used a 2' length of steel wire. I bent the leading end over so it was blunt as it was pushed through a piece of 7/64 Amsteel Blue. I simply taped the leading end of the bury (another piece of 7/64 Amsteel) to the tail end of the wire. The leading end of the bury was tapered as described in these threads. The steel wire worked very well.
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