U-Tube! Three strand eye splice is on of the easiest.

southace said..

lloydyboy53 said..
U-Tube! Three strand eye splice is on of the easiest.

Been there done that, it seems impossible to splice ?

I use sticky tape. Make sure you melt the ends together and run sticky tape around were you want to start back on itself, so that it doesn't just keep unraveling. I also often will do a longer splice with not as mush pressure (Pull) on each stand, so that it also keeps its shape. Once it gets some load on the splice, it will tighten up evenly.

What exactly is going wrong, South?

I've only done one but it worked. Only tips I have are keep ends melted / taped and twist the strands strongly as you splice to keep them looking vaguely like strands of nylon rather than spider webs or whatever.

Also, what's the rationale for nylon over poly for this use? I asked at Twitworths which fibre to use and the guy gave me a very crap answer.

first row is critical, four rows needed

Hi, my first nylon splices were not esteticaly pleasing, for better apearence and to cover unevenly twisted fibres, I did sliped double size hot shrink (electrical) and did splice best I could, then, after stres testing betwen car and the tree, on the lenght of splice I deposit fiew rows of hot glue (hot glue gun) when cold I did placed sleeve over splice and over hot air blower or cearfully over flame made sleve to shrink, at the same time hot glue melts to penetrate deeper into rope fibres and it is gluing itselfe to shrink tube. do not think it is profesional or seamanlike, but looks neat and will not slip.

don't relax too much, next step is monkey fist

I don't think you understand , it's nylon rope the problem is the quality it falls apart .

as mentioned before, use electrical tape, on each end of the three strands, & then again around the rope where you have unravelled the 3 strands to

Southace, I had the same problem when making up my mooring bridle with nylon

As soon as you separate out the 3 main strands, the individual strands lose any body and turn to mush, flaying out even if you do tape their ends.
It makes the final slice look pretty shabby, although it's strength has been ok (coming p to 2 seasons).
Apart from taping, the only thing I found helped slightly was to keep twisting the strands back into shape as you pull each thread through in the splice.
A bit hard to explain but hopefully you get the meaning.

Also I started the splices a lot further down, so that you are working with long ends. This means you've got plenty of length to work with, and having enough length to pull the splice tight helped. Then I just burnt of the excess with hot soldering iron to seal.

Oh...and it also helps if you hang the loop over something so you can keep the strand your working on tightly twisted and under tension.
Allan

Never bothered with the modern stuff, I hope this would help.
My mate made two splices on my boat - the only ones I got - after this book, while sailing down from Qld.


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Thanks for that post, sirgallivant.

The very first picture has an error - text says fibres into threads into strands into ropes but the diagram wrongly identifies threads and strands.

The last picture is also wrong.

I have just done a heap of this. The best resource that I have found is a youtube video called splicing 3 strand for dummies. Its a bit long but it shows in good detail how to get the crown right then after that its just poking each one through in sequence

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