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Matching Half Ropes?


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Part of the reason to suggest buying two new half ropes is that the reason you always match rope brands and models. You want to keep the characteristics of the ropes as identical as possible. With a four year old rope, even if it never caught any falls, the rope has aged, and even without any use, a rope only basically has ten years before it loses too much elasticity just from the nylon losing plasticity.

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I think it is important to match twin ropes exactly, but less important to match half ropes. The twins get clipped together and are meant to stretch the same amount so both ropes catch you at once if you fall. Half ropes are clipped independently and are likely to be varying in length and friction when they catch a fall anyway; this is why half ropes each have to be able to hold a fall by themselves. It seems to me that it would be less important for half ropes to have precisely matched characteristics, though it may be best.

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