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Onewhowalksonrocks
Mountain climber
portland, Maine
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 13, 2012 - 02:29pm PT
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I know all of us has rap a rope or belayed and had to deal with the twisting of the rope. By rapping a rope using a carabiner brake system will re leave the twist for a awhile. On a rope I bought a year ago still twist.
I would like to know how you fix this problem or can it be fixed?
When I coil the rope after climbing I work the twist out and I have hung a rope over night before and it has helped. But not with this rope.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:32pm PT
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How disappointing - I thought this thread was gonna be about Locker or Rottingjohnny.
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:01pm PT
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Dangle the rope from a high place where it can hang free...kinks will vanish like the winter sun..
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
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Some ropes seem to be incurable. Wear it out and buy another model / brand.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Nov 13, 2012 - 04:05pm PT
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rapping on twisted ropes!?!??!
dude, you're so on borrowed time ; )
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wallyvirginia
Trad climber
Stockholm, Sweden
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Nov 13, 2012 - 04:06pm PT
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I've had ropes that constantly twisted and kinked, and others that almost never did.. Some ropes are just cursed it seems. I read somewhere on Beals website that you have to uncoil a new rope in a special manner, otherwise it will give you trouble. Don't know much about that.
My current Beal rope never kinks, my previous kinked all the time (I gave it away) same brand, same model.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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yer gonna die or something...
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fat-n-sassy
Social climber
San Francity, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 05:19pm PT
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kink?
did you say kink?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Nov 13, 2012 - 07:24pm PT
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Butterfly coil, no twists
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crasic
climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 07:38pm PT
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One little trick from wrapping wires and from knot theory.
If you coil both ends together, any twists you put in by accident are effectivelly null. One end will twist the opposite of the other and the total twist is 0.
Why I always butterfly coil both ends at once, have to do a little extra work flaking the rope before climbing, but NO TWISTS.
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crasic
climber
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Nov 13, 2012 - 08:29pm PT
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The twists put in when coiling both ends, even if they stay in the rope, are in opposite directions, when you rap or use a device to push to twists down they will cancel out at the end of the rope.
Sometimes you still encounter some twists in the middle, but I haven't ever had a rats nest at the end from twists that other people seem to have
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Nov 13, 2012 - 08:54pm PT
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Put a knot in the end of each length, but don't tie them together.
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Nov 13, 2012 - 09:04pm PT
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is Weld-iT still around?
he'd hit this one out the park
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Fossil climber
Trad climber
Atlin, B. C.
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Nov 13, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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Free solo. No twists.
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LuckyPink
climber
the last bivy
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Nov 13, 2012 - 11:05pm PT
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if you top rope frequently or rap on a figure 8 device it will twist your rope. suspend both activities
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