My fellow newsgroup-members,

I'm in the process of making a series drogue.I am using multiplait line
here, for obvious reasons.
I tried googling for some splicing-descriptons but can't find any that
are any good.
Since I'm asking... I'm looking for an end-splice, eye-splice and
anchorchain-splice.
Who helps? I like 'm with a lot of pictures... ;-)

Fair winds, Len.

Try - http://www.ropeinc.com/rope-splicing.html

Of course you'll need the proper fids.

Cap'n Ric

Never mind,
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...eye_splice.pdf
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...ain_splice.pdf
Fair winds,
Len.

Len,

Len wrote:
Never mind,
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...eye_splice.pdf
http://www.yalecordage.com/html/pdf/...ain_splice.pdf
Fair winds,
Len.

Are you using yale, or MaxiBraid (NER)?

I have all three of the splice documents (and you can also see it done
on both eye and chain, in my gallery under refit - the thing that
looks, in the thumbnail, like one of the aliens in the movie Alien) for
MaxiBraid if you need them.

L8R

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Len wrote:
My fellow newsgroup-members,

I'm in the process of making a series drogue.I am using multiplait line
here, for obvious reasons.
I tried googling for some splicing-descriptons but can't find any that
are any good.
Since I'm asking... I'm looking for an end-splice, eye-splice and
anchorchain-splice.
Who helps? I like 'm with a lot of pictures... ;-)

Fair winds, Len.


Dont be a fool................ ask the people who manufactured the suff
youre using.
The fid reference by another poster is mostlikly thinking nylon double
braid. You have multiplait. there is a big diffrence.
Bob

Dave wrote:
On 31 Oct 2006 13:49:11 -0800, "Bob" said:

Dont be a fool.

Hmm, that adds a lot to the post. No doubt Len was hell bent on being a fool
and required some dissuading.

Maybe it's English not being my native language or maybe it is my
non-us background / upbringing (pun intended) but I can't understand
why i a) would be a fool or b) would need dissuading regarding my
original question.

Len.

Dave wrote:

It is indeed a matter of the language's nuances. I was being mildly
sarcastic about the poster's comment. Phrases like "Don't be a fool" are
designed pompously to puff up the person making them, to convey his own
sense of his importance, and to belittle the person to whom they're
addressed. They don't add anything of substance to a discussion. Hence my
sarcastic note.

That I understood, so your last clarification was unnecessary. What I
didn't understand in your post was the dissuasion part, it made an
impression on me as a "light version" of calling me a fool, somewhat
hidden but equally paternalizing. Can you falsify this observation ?
But don't be alarmed too much, I sure could live without it.

Len.

Dave wrote:

Yes. The words were intended ironically. The intended meaning was "you have
no reason to take Len for a fool, or to assume he needed to be dissuaded
from acting like one."

Ok, Dave,
Fully understood now... :-)
Roger and out,
Len.

Dave wrote:

Yes. The words were intended ironically. The intended meaning was "you have
no reason to take Len for a fool, or to assume he needed to be dissuaded
from acting like one."

Ok, Dave,
Fully understood now... :-)
Roger and out,
Len.

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I was beginning to think

That'd be a first.