Splicing Modern Ropes

Name: Splicing Modern Ropes | A Practical Handbook
Brand: Adlard Coles Nautical
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A Practical Handbook

Jan-Willem Polman(Autor*in)

Adlard Coles Nautical (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 5. Mai 2016

176 Seiten

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Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. Synthetic fibres
Developments
Technical features
Breaking load
Safe working load
Stretch
Creep
Synthetic fibres used for ropes
Polyester
Polyamide
Polypropylene
UHMWPE (Dyneema, Spectra)
LCP (Vectran)
PBO (Zylon)
Aramid (Kevlar, Technora)
2. Construction of ropes
Twisted ropes
Single braid ropes
Double braid ropes
Braided cover with a core of twisted strands or parallel fibres
Additional types of rope construction
3. Which type of rope?
Sheets and halyards
Materials
Control lines and running backstays
Diameter and breaking load
Length
Mooring lines
Diameter
Length
Ropes combined with clutches
Maintenance and troubleshooting
Inspection
Friction and wear
Rope does not hold in clutches
Twisted ropes
Cleaning ropes
4. Before you start
Splicing tools
Splicing technique and core materials
The size of the eye
How to remove a core from the cover
'Tapering' the ends of a rope
'Milking' the cover
Long bury splicing
5. Eye splice in plaited or twisted ropes
Three-strand rope
Eight-strand rope
6. Eye splice in polyester ropes
Double braid rope
Stainless steel thimble
Rope with a laid core
Rope with parallel fibres in the core
7. Eye splice in Dyneema ropes
Single braid rope
Basic method
Method for hollow braid with a grip fibre
Lock splice
Double braid rope
Without using the cover
Using the cover
Double layer cover
8. Dyneema shackles
Soft shackles
Type 1
Type 2
Integral
Soft shackle knot
9. Weight savings and tapering
Tapering a doubled braid Dyneema rope
Joining two single braid ropes
Joining steel wire with double braid polyester
Joining a single braid Dyneema rope with double braid polyester
10. Thickening and strengthening
Splicing or sewing in an extra cover
Splicing in an extra cover
Sewing in an extra cover
Splicing in an extra core
11. Continuous loops
Double braid polyester
For equal thickness, spliced without the core
For strength, spliced with the core
Single braid Dyneema ('loop')
Basic loop
Loop with cover
Double braid Dyneema
12. Whippings
Double stitched whipping for braided ropes
Common whipping
Whipping for a three-strand laid rope
13. Reeving of new halyards
Reeving eye ('Flemish eye')
Reeving loop with whipping
14. Splicing tools
Using a soft needle
How to make a soft needle
Appendices
1 Features of synthetic fibres: a comparison
2 Diameters and breaking loads of ropes
Guidelines for diameters of sheets and halyards
Guidelines for diameters of mooring lines
Acknowledgements
About the author
Bibliography
Index

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