I've been re-reading the
NE Ropes Sta-Set X eye splice instructions and finding a couple points that are unclear to me, and perhaps somebody here can help me understand them:
- In step 6 (milk the cover back to bury the crossover) they say to keep tension on the exposed core. Does this mean to keep tension on the core with the tapered cover taped over it that I'm pulling the cover over? Or does it mean keep tension on the other side of the eye with the core going inside the cover at the crossover? When I try to maintain tension, I find it impossible to do it on BOTH sides of the eye at once, so I have to pick one of them.
- When I milk the cover back over the core and the splice, there are two directions I can work, and the directions don't give me clear guidance--I can milk it back from the knot toward the splice, or I can milk it down from the crossover along the (soon-to-be) eye, and up the double part of the splice...which pulls the tapered core tail back inside the cover...which is the obvious flaw in my last two splices.
- In step 5, this comment confused me: "Note: It may not be possible to bury the cover tail on every rope. If it is not possible then cross stitch and whip the cover tail to the outside of rope after burying the core." I'm seeing a result like this in some of my splices, but it isn't the cover tail which refuses to bury--in my case, it is the core tail which refuses to bury. I could whip over the tapered core tail a foot back from the eye to cover this.
Can anybody help me figure this out?