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  1. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    Earlier splices I have done, were following the sampson guide with a short fid length. I had seen others that used a full fid, so the core bury on the above blue couger line was a full fid, with more taper at the end, than the 4 strands removed as per the sampson guide, the outer bury was as per...
  2. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    Thank you Burnham, if there was anything wrong that you could see, I am happy for correction and learning, thats why I posted up the pics.
  3. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    Finally got around to fixing the eye splice that got loose at the cross over point, and I finally got a dsplice soft fid, made it so much easier. took it apart, reset the cross over point nice and even, and finished the splice, just need to whiplock it and its all good. 11.7 Donaghys Cougar.
  4. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    spliced up some loopies out of 1/2 sampson double strand tennex with a DMM pinto rig and spacer. made one shorter one for light rigging, and a longer one for drt top tie in, will use the adjustable friction saver with rings for ground set and retrieve. Went to splice in a dead eye in my cougar...
  5. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    Thanks Jonny, went to put one in cart, but they cant calculate shipping to AU, so have sent them a message, and will wait to hear back from them, thanks for the link, appreciate it. T
  6. Trains

    How's the splice today?

    @Mesquite its an arbpro ring, I rekon its near the size of the notch no2 ring, see the pics for model number and specs. Center will take a 16mm/ 5/8 rope, the inner dia is 25mm (edited for typo), going by memory, so 3/4 would get thru it, but I will use it for 5/8 or less as a redirect mainly...
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    How's the splice today?

    Hi Chaps, spliced up a loopie out of 5mts sampson 12 strand tennex, and then with the other 5mts made an ultra sling with an arbpro ring using 3 brummels 6" eye spacing, ran out of room at the end, so just did 3 brummels and then buried the tail, quick whip lock and burnt the end strands, not...
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