Ah! Old school!
But not so good if you want to use a swivel to untwist lines?
Thanks
Where is "here"?Faxie wrote:Is qpower US only or something? You never hear anyone talking about it over here...
Netherlands, but Europe as well. Not very common around here. Just regular dyneema.alamos_kiter wrote:Where is "here"?Faxie wrote:Is qpower US only or something? You never hear anyone talking about it over here...
no it's not. the specs on q-powerline (or any other cored line) require a knotted end or sleeved and knotted. The reason is that if you sew the ends all the load on the line is going to go on your stitching. Cored line goes straight thru there's no weave to it so the stitch has to both bind the lines together and press hard enough to prevent slip. Normal stitching is stitching designed not to carry load. so no, it's not up to spec. However . . . I like it. If you stitch with strong enough thread and do enough stitches it will in fact carry the load of the line. And you'll end up with a slimmer less tangly line set. I think it's a good idea to do q-power this way but you have to be careful when making line sets this way. make sure when you buy a stitched line set like this that you use pigtails on both ends. This helps prevent wear to the line set. If you end up having to cut the q-power due to wear on the ends you will probably have to knot it and you'll lose this nice stitched loop.faklord wrote: The pictures on this site indicate the lines are terminated by zig-zag sewing rather than fig 8 knots?
Is this a recognized way of terminating q-power line?
edt wrote: The pictures on this site indicate the lines are terminated by zig-zag sewing rather than fig 8 knots?
Is this a recognized way of terminating q-power line?
no it's not. the specs on q-powerline (or any other cored line) require a knotted end or sleeved and knotted. The reason is that if you sew the ends all the load on the line is going to go on your stitching.
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