Splicing high-tech double braid.

[mrgnstrn]

Thanks for all the input.

Yes, I mis-typed. I looked it up after I posted and realized that the correct length was 48 diameters of the overall diameter.

Brion's instructions look way easier to follow than the ones from New England Ropes.

The one thing that bothered me about all the instructions, Brion's included, was that it seems that once the core is inserted into itself and the core-in-core is covered by the cover again.....that there will be too much slack in the cover.

Specifically, refering to Brion's directions, the core emerges from the cover at the eye of the splice at "core point #1". After putting the core in the cover for the loop/eye, once does not insert the core at this point.....but 8diameters further toward the other end of the line. So it appears that once the splice is all done, the throat of the high-tech core is 8diameters away from the throat of the cover part.
Does that make sense?

Brion's book talks about snapping it against a belay. Is this meant to get the throats and such all lined up? will the core emerge from it self to do this alignment?

For what it's worth, the NER instructions have the same thing, but to my eye, it looks ever worse (even more mis-aligned).

Brian Duff, let me give this a shot on my own, then if I run into a brick wall I may visit. I bought the line a few feet long for this very purpose!

-KM