Thread: winches - plasma rope or wire cable?

Looking at the ebay pics I'm not happy about the eye splicing technique used. They have literally spliced it back using a traditional splicing technique (being 12 strand double it has two threads passing through each feed). I had a rope manufacturer re-splice my eye with a thimble and new locking hook and they wouldn't touch it (hadn't worked with dyneema before) until the rep came out and instructed them how to do it. Bonus was my rope was the demonstrator/practice rope so they all got to learn and I got a freebie.

This is the best video I've yet found on what I've found to be more than one manufacturers method to splice 12 strand.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9kImggLWUQ"]How To Splice An Eye In 12 Strand/Spectra/Dyneema Rope - YouTube[/ame]

Found a new go to guy for ropes.

Splicing and Cutting
3/23 Eddie Road
Minchinbury NSW
96779877

Dropped in today after the usual supplier recommended them for cut lengths of dyneema. He has a wealth of knowledge, is pretty willing to share and totally poo poo any bad ideas and recommend what you need. Best part is wholesale only but if you go to the trouble to find him well you get wholesale prices as well (their is no retail list). Example, 12mm dyneema winch line, $6-75/m. They are working with a new supplier and are waiting on a new order of winch lines, crimped drum end and eye spliced with stainless thimble for very competitive prices.

Further to this I also got a replacement thimble for my dyneema. A tubular type, never seem one before but better for synthetic as it is far more resistant to twisting and elongating under load and no sharp ends to catch the line.

Apologies if this has been posted before, but I found these instructions from Nobles on an alternative splice method thats pretty simple, and only requires the use of the free end of the rope (not both ends like the Youtube demo above).

It might look a bit rough, but the note at the end of the article states that they have done a number of destructive tests on ropes spliced using this method and all have failed in tension, not by failure of the splice itself.

http://www.nobles.com.au/media/11946...structions.pdf

Steve