Half ropes, same manufacturer?
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Silly question, but I recently bought a pair of half ropes from someone and now need to replace one. They claimed they'd only been used a few times and had a picture. I bought them on here and figured "Hey, this is a pretty good community, no one is out to screw anyone over." Well I got the ropes and one is perfect the others sheath is shredded about 1/3 of the way from one end with visible core. |
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Sam, |
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generally half ropes are best bought as a pair. Even if you do get a replacement that is the exact same rope from the same manufacturer the old and the new will have different amounts of elongation. I would also question the "good" rope's reliability based on the condition of the other rope. Bottom line is: don't buy used ropes. |
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Sam Stephens wrote:That being said I don't know how much I want to go after the seller, what good is it really going to do?If you let their name out it would give the rest of us a heads up. |
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The rope in question. |
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I have a general "distrust" of people that join MP just to sell stuff or complain. |
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Most of the above info in not accurate. Ropes having different properties/elongations is not relevant if you are using half/double techniques. That is, clipping ropes separately. Different properties only matters if you are using twin techniques. That is, clipping both ropes to every piece. |
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Thanks Greg. I'll probably just wait til I need to use doubles again before I buy another to go with this one. |
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Greg D wrote:Most of the above info in not accurate. Ropes having different properties/elongations is not relevant if you are using half/double techniques. That is, clipping ropes separately. Different properties only matters if you are using twin techniques. That is, clipping both ropes to every piece. So, if you buy a new rope that is rated for half/double than get whatever you want. Never clip both ropes to a single piece of gear if they are not rated as twins. Half/double rope vs twin ropes are quite misunderstood. To confuse you more, recently some ropes are rated for twin and half/double techniques. In short, twin ropes must be clipped to every piece... and the ropes should have like properties. Half/double ropes should not be clipped to a single piece... and the ropes do not have to have like properties.Greg is correct. On long routes that require two ropes I take a single rope and a 8.3 half rope (because I don't have enough money to buy three ropes). I clip them alternately or left pro on one rope and right pro on the other rope (half/double rope technique). I think it's kinda dumb to be trailing a perfectly good rope and not using it to lead, so even if we have to go up w/ two single ropes for some reason, I still like to use them as doubles. |