[TowerTalk] rope

[Clay Curtiss W7CE]

> > >The black dacron covering wears through and once that happens the
> > >polyester seems to go pretty quickly.
> >
> >I've had similar bad experience with the dacron rope from the following
> >link. I was using it with pulleys to suspend dipoles from the tall tower
> >at W6BX. It lasted about a year.
> >
> Wear is a function of abrasion and if you have something that is
> hostile to the rope, it is going to break!

> If you have the rope going over a tree branch, the mechanical motion
> of the tree is going to abrade any rope.
>
> No rope product is perfect.
>

I'm not going over a tree branch.  I'm going through they eye of a ceramic
insulator.  The ceramic insulators I use are very smooth.  The real point is
that 3/8" nylon rope outlasts the 3/16" dacron/polyster at my QTH.  3/16"
Dacron/polyester: 1 year.  3/8" Nylon: 10+ years.

Clay  W7CE