Bloody Marlow D2 splice

[NickfromWI]

I've never heard of a rope being given an adhesive coating on the inside, so I had to go check it out. Sure enough, straight from marlow's website: "The inner core is coated with polyurethane to improve adhesion between core and cover giving outstanding performance in clutches and jammers and improving abrasion resistance when uncovered."

Crazy. Makes sense, but still crazy! I'm sure that makes the splicing process a breeze I've heard of lubricating the fibers, or coating for uv protection...but adhesion? Sorta goes against what I thought gives best strength...but for this application, it makes sense...

or is this why marlow is being bought out by another company?

Let us know how it goes!

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nick

[glynn]

I had just plucked up the courage to ask a question , when the first item on the forum almost answered it for me.
I am trying to splice 14mm braid on braid with my new wand, book and novice enthusiasm.My first three attempts look awful, with the cover not swallowing all the core and threads snagged everywhere.Is this more of a problem with Marlow rope , or do I just need lots of practice.
My real question was what to do with the eye. For handybillies, running backstays, etc should they be left soft or should I try and insert a stainless eye into the mess?
Glynn

[NickfromWI]

Practice will fix the problems you're describing. Be gentle the wand, get to know how it feels when it's sliding inside the rope and you'll soon be able to identify when it's snagged on something.

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nick

[RoyB]

Originally Posted by NickfromWI

I've never heard of a rope being given an adhesive coating on the inside, so I had to go check it out. Sure enough, straight from marlow's website: "The inner core is coated with polyurethane to improve adhesion between core and cover giving outstanding performance in clutches and jammers and improving abrasion resistance when uncovered."

Nick - I've spliced other products that have urethane coated cores - Samson and others make them as well. They are used for stripped halyards and spinnaker sheets among other things.

I think the problem with D2 is that the urethane coating is quite heavy and the cover is woven very tight.

This combination hits hard when extracting the core and also when running the cover home as it increased the adhesion of cover to core

[NickfromWI]

I've spliced LOTS of ropes that have coated cores, but never something that had a coating that is INTENDED to make it sticky.

I'd love to try to splice it. I'm sure it would be fun....once.

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nick