Long Splice in Wire Rope

[Brion Toss]

Hi
In the grommet, the heart is replaced by the same strand that you make the grommet with. In a "perfect grommet," this strand completely replaces the core; in very large grommets, usually only enough core to allow adequate strand bury is removed. A wire long splice is kind of like the latter, except that you use (and bury part of) six strands in the process of making a splice. In both cases, there is no core sharing the space with the buried strands. Rather, they butt up against each other inside the rope. You can see a nice series of illustrations of this in Ashley's #2718.
A long splice in wire is a high calling...
Fair leads,
Brion Toss