Serving Dynex Dux for chafe protection

[calderp]

Originally Posted by dugout

You might try to address the stanchions more so than the Line. If you can't find anything out of the ordinary, burrs etc, maybe a little cover braid, just a few inches, from 1/4" double braid dacron rope, place over the Dux and lining the stanchion holes? This supposes the dux will slide in the dacron but the dacron will not slide out of the stanchion without cause.
3/8th stanchion holes and 5mm, a little bigger than 3/16 Dux, right; it should fit.
I have found dacron cover braid works well chafe protecting single braid dyneema.

That would have been perfect, except that I didn't think to do it before putting in my splices! So now I am limited, I suppose, to things that I can wrap on.

As for the stanchions I think I saved a penny when I shouldn't have by buying cheap top caps. There aren't any burrs but they do have a bit of a hard edge,

[Brion Toss]

Hi,
Consider untucking one end, sliding on the chafe protection, and retucking. While the rope is out, you could do what you could to relieve the edges of the fittings -- or even to replace them with better fittings.
This problem is not unique to Spectra, of course; many failures of coated wire lifelines can be traced to chafe in the cover where stanchions have cut through the plastic, allowing water in.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss