I am a bit late on this and may have mentioned this on SA on a similar thread. But if there is a smaller diameter Salsa then use that and bury the Amsteel the entire length of the Salsa to build the diameter back to what you want. This is what I do with my halyard although I am using Tenex instead of Salsa. Tenex of course is polyester but I don't need it for the strength. I am splicing 3/8 Tenex to 3/16 Amsteel. I have several season on it. It was discussed on this forum back when I was first replacing my wire halyard with the Amsteel. I did not replace the sheaves so needed to keep the Amsteel small. I can now report that this has worked fine although I do remove some of the Amsteel each season to get a clean section going over the sheave.
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