Hi all, First of all I have to apologise for 'crashing' your forum, I do not sail at all, the reason i have signed in is because i need your help to Identify a 'Mystery rope'. Why am i asking, well i am a Caver....and i have been 'given' a new rope which was identified to me as a Tendon Static rope,[or mammut rope] i was going to use it for cave access, but when i inspected the rope it did not fit the usual braid size weave etc for abseil rope. After exhaustive 'asking around' the general consensus is that it is a sailing 'rope' [sorry for any incorrect terminology etc]. Can anyone positively indentify this rope?
The sheath is White with 2 Red squares separated by 1 white square, size is 10.0 or 10.5mm, there are 6x'S' strands and 7x 'Z' strands, the rope does not have any external ID marks on the ends. Inside the rope is a Black thread and a twisted Red/Blue thread indentifier. [see pic]. An internal ID Tape is not present. We thought it was maybe Tendon or Mammut [Performance Static 10 mm].
Tendon have said it is not one of theirs. Mammut have not answered, [yet] the remaining manufacturers that i have found with this colour rope have stated on their web pages that they use an Internal Tape Id, so I have not bothered to ask. Obviously safety is paramount, so before we go putting people on the rope we would like to be sure of its original and suitability. If you are able to assist with the ID that would be great.
I look forward to your ideas, many thanks Ric.