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Re: mewants to make a ropedart
Reply #15 - Aug 10^th, 2006 at 3:20pm

here is how to make a quick mini ropedart pretty cheep (if you have the stuff laying around. otherwise it will cost about $5 US, with lots of leftover material)

first, get some braided mason's line like this:
mason's line

then get an eye screw like this:
eye screw (mine's about 1.5 inches long)

and cut a length (i use about 15 feet) of the cord, and tie it on to the eye screw with the best knot you can think of. i use a trucker's hitch:
trucker's hitch

makes for a good littl epocket version of the ropedart (though deploying it is a little tricky because the line likes to tangle when i take it out of my pocket. perhaps a loose monkey chain?)

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Re: mewants to make a ropedart
Reply #17 - Aug 12^th, 2006 at 4:48pm

well, actaully i don't have a picture, but the gauge of the wire it is made from is something around 1 or 0 (that is, if you are using the american system. i don't know how international it is though.) it measures at about 1/2 centimeter in diameter.
when i find it again, i will see about taking a picture (it is lost in my room somewhere now Embarrassed

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Re: mewants to make a ropedart
Reply #18 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 5:20pm

siguy wrote on Aug 10^th, 2006 at 3:20pm:

here is how to make a quick mini ropedart pretty cheep (if you have the stuff laying around. otherwise it will cost about $5 US, with lots of leftover material)

first, get some braided mason's line like this:
mason's line

then get an eye screw like this:
eye screw (mine's about 1.5 inches long)

and cut a length (i use about 15 feet) of the cord, and tie it on to the eye screw with the best knot you can think of. i use a trucker's hitch:
trucker's hitch

makes for a good littl epocket version of the ropedart (though deploying it is a little tricky because the line likes to tangle when i take it out of my pocket. perhaps a loose monkey chain?)

Neat

Say though, why use a trucker's hitch? I thought the idea was to be able to compound force (gives you twice the 'power' actually, if we negate friction), but I don't imagine you'd be needing that much force to get your dart out of someone.... What am I missing?

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Matthias Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1418 Gatineau/Ottawa QC, Canada Gender:	Re: mewants to make a ropedart Reply #19 - Dec 16^th, 2006 at 11:57pm (chanting) bowline bowline bowline...
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Re: mewants to make a ropedart
Reply #20 - Dec 17^th, 2006 at 10:48am

Fritz_the_Cat wrote on Aug 7^th, 2006 at 2:54pm:

Wow that looks cool. Bet it hurts real good too. Tongue

Did yoy braid over the nail ?

Do you neeed the RopeDart book ? Wink

Sorry, I have not been on alot and must have missed your post Frize_the_cat.

Any ways If you still want the answer to your question, I did not but instead I put the nail set inside the round braid of a rope I had lying around and secured it with duct tape. the braid holds it in pretty good. You could braid around it your self though.

And yes I would like that book if you could still get it.

Thank You

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Stenny Funditor Offline Don't laugh at me, I can sling in every direction! Posts: 654 Gender:	Re: mewants to make a ropedart Reply #21 - Dec 17^th, 2006 at 2:21pm Anybody knows what happened to Fritz? He's not posting for half a year. I just hope that he didn't finally manage to NOT duck under his ropedart or MG .
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CanDo Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 1652 New England, USA Gender:	Re: mewants to make a ropedart Reply #22 - Dec 17^th, 2006 at 2:47pm Matthias wrote on Dec 16^th, 2006 at 11:57pm: (chanting) bowline bowline bowline... Figure 8, Figure 8, Figure 8!! Ha, I'm actually thinking that a Bow String knot would be mose effective here.
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