Samson categorizes its ropes as a Class I or Class II construction
for splicing and testing, splicing as the preferred rope termination method.
Knots can signifcantly decrease a rope’s strength while, in most cases,
splicing maintains 100% of the specifed rope strength. Splice terminations, . This
connection cannot be removed without
re-splicing the ropes; however, splicing
single braids, section and re-
splicing, or the rope must be retired.
For 8-strand and 3-strand single braids
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