Help identifying rope please
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Chocolate fireguard
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In 1990/91 I bought 100m of some rope that (I think) looked like that.
It was a very soft-lay 10 or 11mm rope made by a company called Joanny (again, I think!).
I never saw anybody else using that sort of rope, although I had no complaints about it.
alanw
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Is it still in use? If you are retiring it, if it conforms to EN 1891 there should be an identification tape in with the kern.
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The identification tape is a thin strip of tape made of polypropylene. It has to display the following information by law: manufacturer's name, legal standard, rope type, year of manufacture, and the material from which the static rope is made.
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Thank you; and d'oh, should have thought of that.Is it still in use? If you are retiring it, if it conforms to EN 1891 there should be an identification tape in with the kern.
The identification tape is a thin strip of tape made of polypropylene. It has to display the following information by law: manufacturer's name, legal standard, rope type, year of manufacture, and the material from which the static rope is made.Static ropes & dynamic ropes for work safety | EDELRID
Safety and innovation made in Germany: dynamic and static ropes and lines for applications in working at height, height rescue and tree care.
It is most definitely not in use though. It has the potential to be around 40 years old
Edit: I'll cut some off next time
cavetroll
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In my experience this strand tends to disintegrate if the rope is old and somewhat used.Is it still in use? If you are retiring it, if it conforms to EN 1891 there should be an identification tape in with the kern.
The identification tape is a thin strip of tape made of polypropylene. It has to display the following information by law: manufacturer's name, legal standard, rope type, year of manufacture, and the material from which the static rope is made.Static ropes & dynamic ropes for work safety | EDELRID
Safety and innovation made in Germany: dynamic and static ropes and lines for applications in working at height, height rescue and tree care.
Don’t be shocked if all you find is a slightly red strand with no information legible. Make sure you cut off about a foot in order to give yourself the best chance of finding some writing on the strand.
Looks like they still sell it:
The Black Holes Expedition to Mexico in the late 1980s was given a load of Bluewater rope which looked like that. Approx 9.5mm and 11mm I think although it was probably imperial measurements being American rope. It came back from that trip and much of it ended up with NCC members who used it around the Dales.
Where in the Dales did you find it?
Where in the Dales did you find it?
badger
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Was going to say Blue water, what I started SRT on back in the 90s, back then we use to drop test it for safety as it was more than 10years old, and although it passed it got so stiff was difficult to cinch the knots, so when descending (if you was rigging) when you weighted the rope it unervingly would drop to take the slack out of the knot.
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