[TowerTalk] re: figure 8 knots

[Ian White, G3SEK]

N6RK wrote:
>A more useful URL for knots (at least for me) was:
>
><<http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~styms1l/cave/>>
>
>Scroll down the left hand area and click on "knots".
>Then click on double figure 8.
>
>I previously knew just about nothing about knots and
>I read the section in there on the double
>figure 8 knots.  Now I use those for everything.
>They always work great, and untie easily.


The double figure-8 is excellent for making rope eyes, either in bare
rope or tied around a metal or nylon eye. I've used it a lot, and never
had one slip, or even show signs of movement.

Another good feature of the figure-8 is that is doesn't have any sharp
kinks, which usually make a knot much weaker than the straight part of
the rope. Any knot will be weaker than a correctly made splice, but as
an occasional rope-worker I'd trust my figure-8s much more than my
doubtful splicing skills.

73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek

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