You've been a bit vague about exactly what you are trying to do so I will suggest a couple of ideas which might work, a blue ice alpine runner with a small krab might achieve what you are after?
> You've been a bit vague about exactly what you are trying to do so I will suggest a couple of ideas which might work, a blue ice alpine runner with a small krab might achieve what you are after?
Intentionally - I didn't really want to wade through a load of opinions.
Thanks for your suggestions, but they're not what I'm after.
Used to be the case you could walk into any climbing shop and buy what I want off the peg.
Sorry, you had already discounted the other ideas that had been offered and I was suggesting some alternatives that I thought may fit depending on your application.
Could you just double up one of the 30cm open slings dmm/ocun/mammut/etc make so kind of like a mini alpine draw? Would also have the benefit of being able to extend it when needed. May or may not be useful.
In Sailing, they also use a lot of dyneema continuous loops. Plus in highlining. You can even make them yourself… splicing dyneema is not that hard. HowNot2 has videos on how they are made and then also how much strenght they have (slow pull IIRC). There are still limitations on how short you can go (like with sewn dyneema/nylon sling/tape). In realistic terms, going shorter than 10cm with any strenght is next to impossible.
> Buy some dyneema tape by the metre and tie with a water knot?
Is that a joke? You can't buy dyneema tape by the metre because it can't safely be knotted. I thought that was pretty common knowledge for the last 30 years.
To be fair, I think that tape is dyneema wrapped in polyamide and is horrible to knot as it is extremely rigid. The point about knotting pure dyneema tape stands.
Edelrid Tech Webbing isn't what anyone thinks about when you say dyneema is it though. I have a 120 sewn sling in Tech Web, and like Paul says it's really stiff so knots don't tighten much. Kinda useful when knotting a sewn sling temporarily but I'd be a bit nervous about tying knotted slings with the stuff I have. Maybe more modern versions sold off the reel are softer though.
> Edelrid Tech Webbing isn't what anyone thinks about when you say dyneema is it though. I have a 120 sewn sling in Tech Web, and like Paul says it's really stiff so knots don't tighten much. Kinda useful when knotting a sewn sling temporarily but I'd be a bit nervous about tying knotted slings with the stuff I have. Maybe more modern versions sold off the reel are softer though.
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