Strength
Hi there,
Great question. Yeah, you're right, there's no way to get sufficient friction with the teensy bury of such a short grommet. Fortunately we have mass and cunning on our side. Mass because the material, given a full, overlapped bury, is doubled in the grommet, and the grommet is already something like twice the strength of a straight length of the same material. And cunning because you start with a Mobius Brummel, which not only prevents slippage, but provides some strength, to compensate for the shortage of friction in the bury.
In destruction tests, even very small grommets have lasted to well over 150% of rope strength. So no, you're not crazy. Just do the splice right.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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