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Hello again,
Okey-dokey. Bar taut is a fairly subjective term; it will probably be in excess of 5% of the break, but you'll know it when you feel it.Stretching and serving individual pieces is the only way to go, so you'll need to have a good idea of finished length before cutting. If you do sockets, just stop short of where they'll go, and leave enough extra twine to finish service after socketing.
As for the Vectran, the more tension the better, for avoiding torque, but the big thing is to "tune" the mallet so that the turns are just tight enough, and no more. And here you'll be serving after you splice the ends. And when you splice the ends, you shorten the rope, so that must be figured into the cut length.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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