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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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Was wonderin cause I wanna take a shot at a seatbelt sling.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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It should work for a seatbelt sling. No doubt real paracord is much better, but you should get good results for this purpose
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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is it braided or twisted? Twisted stuff tends to tangle. You want the braided rope. Otherwise it'll be perfect.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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Its braided.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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You can make a sling from darn near anything that has some flex.
Last week I destroyed a VCR and I took the plug cord thing and made a TS3 from it and proceded to sling stones at least 70 yards into the woods. It was pretty heavy though and didn't really feel right but you get the Idea,
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I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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I tried with orange extesion cord and the end results weren't very safe lol.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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Yeah you have to be carefull because it's so heavy it can come around and whip you pretty hard.
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I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.
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Re: 3/16 nylon rope
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If you got it at Wally World, it's the same cord I use for my jagged rock slings. It will be a little stiff at first but it will loosen up some. It will never be as flexable as jute or hemp but I found it to be almost indestructable.
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Yup, that's where I found it. Tons of it for 6 bucks ain't bad, and the speckled colors looks nice.
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How do you guys make even weaves? I just tried to make a rockman and my pouch sucked because i kept trying to tighten the weave (the instruction said to make sure it was tight) which resulted in a very thin and very variable thickness pouch. Do you guys use looms or something?
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The few woven I've done I wove my entire length, then pushed it all up to tighten. Usually when I did this I had done maybe a quarter of a pouch at a time, so it took 4 to five times to make a full, tight weave. Hope this helps.
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It's important that the weaving isn't loose, but it sounds like you are weaving
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tight. Keep the warp under tension so that it's completely straight and don't tighten the weft strand (the strand you wrap around everything else) enough to be straight. It should always be bending around the warp strands. After weaving for a little while push the section you've just woven to the already braided side of your sling to compress the weave and repeat until the weave is too dense to compress any further and is as long as you'd like.
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Massi - WTF? It's called a sling. You use it to throw rocks farther and faster than you could otherwise. That's all.
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Re: Now Taking Questions
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How do you guys make even weaves? I just tried to make a rockman and my pouch sucked because i kept trying to tighten the weave (the instruction said to make sure it was tight) which resulted in a very thin and very variable thickness pouch. Do you guys use looms or something?
I think you´re confused a bit. Tightening the weave comes AFTER each pass towards the beginning of the pouch. What I mean is you should make a weave pass on the three strands, and THEN push upwards what you just weaved.
If you weave tight each HORIZONTAL pass, your pouch will turn out like crap (thin and uneven like you describe). You need to push tight VERTICALLY on each pass.
Hope that helps.
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Preserving the sling, mankind´s original Magnum. Rookie slingers are modern superheroes: Never far away from trouble. Rockman sling tutorial:
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Re: Now Taking Questions
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Weavers use a comb device to pack each pass through. I use an old comb. I also find it easier to use a loom. Most of the slings I make now days begin in the middle, with the pouch then weave and braid out from there finishing with the loop or release knot.
I saved this picture from another posting because the idea works and it shows a good use of what you might find around the house.
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Hi, all. Do I have this straight:
Belearic style = sidearm style with multiple initial spins?
Helicopter style = Byzantine style with multiple initial spins?
Many thanks.
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