Synthetic fibres -- objective performance ratings?

[Bob Pingel]

Yes, comprehensive testing like this would be great.

There was some testing (around knot strength actually) in SAIL last month. I found it interesting that they developed their own baseline breaking strengths -- these were far higher than the published tensiles. I believe most published tensiles are fairly conservative. I also under understand that many tensiles are determined from a spliced sample -- so by definition a proper splice is 100% efficient.

Checkout the Layline site, they have done some elasticity testing on their "punisher".

Bob