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Take the free end (longer) and tie a couple or three bends-both-ropes half hitches right about where the youtube red play triangle/symbol is and you've got a knot I've used since I was a kid. Double cinches - first around the object, second the grabby-slide part cinches down on itself so it...

I never pondered too hard on the concentrated friction point issue. It was just something someone contributed to the conversation. But now having thought a bit, with a hitch cord with significant kevlar content the probable root concern of local overheating kind of goes away. Possibly...

Always cool and interesting to see the "B" side of the members here. Do you ever answer at the border crossing "What do you do for a living?" "I make/sell drugs." :) Interesting work on hitches. Can you expand your testing to dirty used hitch cords? I find new clean anything seems to work...

Is your testing intention to see how much max load before the locked hitch slips? You need a load cell, friction compounds mercilessly and ruins many stage MA systems. Seems to me locking up is easy for most hitches. The hard part is nice modulation and initially getting it unlocked under...