[TowerTalk] Rope

[Steve K8LX]

Are you sure about that?

Synthetic Textiles rates their rope at 1790 lbs for the 5/16" and 770 
lbs for the 3/16". Most of the black Dacron rope sold by ham suppliers 
is sourced from them.

-Steve K8LX

On 3/11/2021 10:05 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:

> ##  I will second this.   I bought several hundred feet of  .3125 inch....  five  sixteenths   dacron rope.
> The  .3125  stuff   has  a whopping  1770 lbs  rating.   The dacron rope  that  davis rf sells  is one helluva lot  stronger
> than the  .. textiles industries version sold by  DXE and others.  Like  apples and oranges.