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Originally Posted by Anton B
I was taking care to make long tapered splices, and got up to line strength on at least one break, and 90% on a lot of them. I was getting 75% when I wasn't taking much care of the tapers.
I bought that scale for $25, how could it be inaccurate? ;-)
I have a new idea; using something like a whoopee sling to make a cascading adjustable shroud with those new fangled friction rings, which would allow the whoppe sling splice part of it to only carry half the load, and use a bungee cord in the same way as the Constrictor jam cleat.
I will mock one up with my tiny line ('cause I'm too cheap to use big line) and break a couple of them and see what happens there.
If you are interested, I could try to do another test of the luggage tag with extra diamond knots using a stronger shackle to see what it takes to break it.
Anton
PS, please link to the new thread...
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Is it possible for you to make a conventional soft shackle and break it to see if your results are calibrated to others? It should break at 125% of line strength plus or minus. If it is breaking at 200% of line strength, then we know what is going on.