[Amps] OT: Fw: Who sells black rope?

[Steve Katz]

If it's Synthetic Textiles double braided Dacron rope, as almost all of it is:

http://www.synthetictextilesinc.com/supportham.html

That doesn't contain any nylon at all.  It's pure Dacron, white woven center, black braided outer.  I've been to the plant where they manufacture this stuff (it's local -- used to be in Ventura, now down in Anaheim) and it's quite an interesting operation.

Steve WB2WIK/6

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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [Amps] OT: Fw: Who sells black rope?




Jim W7RY wrote:
> The "black dacron" rope you get at HRO and AES is simply white nylon cord 
> with black braid sheath over the nylon. Problem with it is the braided 
> sheets slides off the nylon.
>   
YMMV from distributor to distributor, but I think you will find that is 
not a nylon core, but  just a different color dacron. At least what I 
have here  is not nylon and does not stretch like nylon.  The stretch in 
50 to 100' of 3/16" nylon is 3 to 5 feet over a day or two. I'm using 
the 5/16 that looks as you describe, as a back guy for a 30' 25 G I use 
to pull up a 40' aluminum tower with a 30' vertical on top (AV-640) and 
it has not had to be retensioned in two years.

73

Roger (K8RI)

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