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Re: Dyneema Lifeline Splicing
I love to splice all of my lines but doing Dyneema double-braid is always a chore and particularly difficult when the outer braid is tight. I find that my rubber mallet helps a lot, and will also resort to tapering the inner and outer cores more than the recommended amount (the lengths remain the same, I just "thin" more strands). When I did my lifelines with Dyneema on my last boat, I used single-braid and classic lashings which I would occasionally tighten as the Dyneema did it's slow creep.
If you absolutely cannot get a spliced eye into that line, then you could revert to sewing/whipping in an eye; with appropriate line and perhaps by combining sewing and a tight lashing you could make an eye that is almost as good as a spliced one and certainly sufficient for safety reasons (there is information out on the web regarding sewing on such items as jacklines which is quite informative regarding the strengths when using different methods).
Minnewaska - he's doing a double-braid splice, which doesn't require the line to be pulled through as one would need on a single-braid line using the Brummel splice. And since the single-braided dyneema lets you compress the line enough to make an opening wide enough to pull an eye through, that isn't a problem (I've use that method to get eyes on both ends of the line).
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Last edited by Zanshin; 02-22-2016 at 09:44 AM.