ActingLikeAKid
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Wondering if anyone's ever played around with this, it's something that I saw in some rock climbing and other applications where you need to account for the possibility of a sudden and catastrophic yank on a rope... (I can't for the life of me remember the name of this, or I'd just google it and paste in an image).... so I'll try to describe it. I was thinking about how sometimes there's a hard deployment - too much BP in the ejection charge, or whatever...
So the idea is you make a loop in your Kevlar cord, and stitch the bottom of the loop together, but with just a little thread - enough so that it will break at, say, 25lbs. You do, say, 5 of these. In an event which would otherwise tear the nose-cone off, instead, some of that energy is dissipated breaking the threads.
Is this making sense? Has anyone tried this? Is it worthwhile?
I'm sure the name for the technique will come to me moments after making this post. Or at 2am or something
So the idea is you make a loop in your Kevlar cord, and stitch the bottom of the loop together, but with just a little thread - enough so that it will break at, say, 25lbs. You do, say, 5 of these. In an event which would otherwise tear the nose-cone off, instead, some of that energy is dissipated breaking the threads.
Is this making sense? Has anyone tried this? Is it worthwhile?
I'm sure the name for the technique will come to me moments after making this post. Or at 2am or something