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25-NOV-2004

Doubling

Notice my irregularly long loops with extra long tails on the re-corded hexes. It took me an hour and a half and a waste of five feet of spectra before I figured out how to cut back the kern to leave a full inch or so of mantle to flame seal, then use the sealed end to thread the hex. I retied using opposing triple fishermans, as recommended in "Knots and Ropes for Climbers".
I examined all of the nuts for fall damage, and only 1 seemed to have taken a fall. It's wire had bent out of shape and was mostly intact, but I took it out of use anyway. Included were the micro stoppers.
This updates me with (from hexes to stoppers, left to right):
Hexes:
1 10
2 9
2 8
2 7
2 6
2 5
3 4

Stoppers:
1 13
2 12
2 11
1 10
3 9
2 8
3 7
3 6
3 5
1 4
3 micro

And the same #3 and #4 camalot I had before.

Canon PowerShot A300
1/60s f/3.6 at 5.0mm with Flash full exif

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