Does anyone have any tips for making lines all exactly the same length when make up your own lines ?
With the few sets I've made up, I can get them all with in 10mm of each other but not all exact.

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sorry mate. thats the blunt of it. try stretching them out while useing thier sag to guage eveness then marking with a texta

you might save alot of stress if you splice up some adjustable pigtails. or buy some

Ok thanks. Yeah, I have been using pig tails to get it right. I've just made up a jig with a scale to put each line under the same tension before marking it, it's got it close but not 100% right yet

I'm looking to make up some new front lines to replace existing ones that are shagged (pig tails are shreaded) - Strydz how are you doing your pigtails? And I hear your grief about getting lines the same length - so - if I cant be stuffed trying to make them myself - who in the kiting community is good and cost effective??

How are you making the lines? You should be able to get exactly the same length by splicing. Simply make and sew one line then make the other to match. You have to set the length under load. 5-10 kg is ample.

Buy 500 feet rolls of Qpower line and you can do knots with no sheathing. Still have lines in use I built back in 2003.

Tie em to a tree and stretch them. You can easily get 50mm from stretching.

Hey lambi. mate heaps cheaper to but a set of adjustable pigtails then get one of us to make em. I make my own because my buisness gives me time. but there is no way i could sell them for what it takes to make em. Best advise. Buy some dyneema line, make yourself a splice ang google. splicing is fun anyway

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lortap said..
Tie em to a tree and stretch them. You can easily get 50mm from stretching.

Yeah stretching my line in the middle a bit at a time gives me around 1cm each night, especially when the web cams are on.

Make them out of Q lines, you can tie them off without sowing.

Make loops on one end, secure all lines, stretch them out and mark them off. Tie them off at your marking and they should be bang on the same.

There seems to be conflicting opinions on knots in lines even Q-line with suggestions from bench tests it will halve the breaking tension... a lot of breaks I have seen over the years have been at knots that people have missed in their lines so not sure I would be intentionally adding any...

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Smithy said...
There seems to be conflicting opinions on knots in lines even Q-line with suggestions from bench tests it will halve the breaking tension... a lot of breaks I have seen over the years have been at knots that people have missed in their lines so not sure I would be intentionally adding any...

Wheres the conflict? That is common knowledge

Think what he was saying was the breaking strain is double kite lines so no need to worry about the knots....