wormed, parceled, and served

[ssor]

I have just finished splicing new docklines and have wormed, parceled and served the eyes and a couple of feet of the line on each end. I wonder, after this effort, how effective this treatment is for saving the live from chafe.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Not very - a length of reinforced plastic hose does much better until the UV gets to it and it splits - but worming, parcelling and serving will certainly look nicer!

[Vince Brennan]

Post a few pics!

W/P/S will certainly help increase the life of your eyes, and it's better with than without, but the ultimate lifespan will also depend on preparation and materials used for the serving.

Hope you get a nice long lifespan from them to compensate you for the effort involved.

[George Ray]

The serving may not protect from ultimate abuse like 72 hours of storm and wind surging, however the more mundane everyday chafe and UV that kills 99% of lines is held at bay by your good work. Also the serving is renewable and that is the point really. Protect with something cheap/renewable. At least it was in the days when labor was cheap and materials expensive. Keep the fire hose and such for protection in a storm or when the vessel is left unattended during hurricane season etc etc.

[ssor]

Post a few pics!

W/P/S will certainly help increase the life of your eyes, and it's better with than without, but the ultimate lifespan will also depend on preparation and materials used for the serving.

Hope you get a nice long lifespan from them to compensate you for the effort involved.

Would love to post pics but don't have a digital camera, just film.
I used #36 nylon seine twine with beeswax and pine tar mixture soaked into the spool. I used black friction tape from the electrical supply store.

[StevenBauer]

Ross, when you get your film developed you can have them scanned and put on disk for an extra dollar or two. I guess we could wait a couple of days. :)

Steven

[ssor]

Maybe I'll do it that way. Usually I just scan my prints.

[Vince Brennan]

Sounds like you went about it in the right way.... a good tar/beeswax mixture will go a long way to preserving the nylon, and the servings will protect the parcellings and core from ordinary chafe wear.

Remember to check the inner surfaces / bearing surfaces of the servings and replace when they start to wear thru... much easier to replace the serving than to make up a whole new megillah, innit?

[ssor]

Have several evenings invested here.

[Ian McColgin]

The full worm-parcel-and- serve si most useful for cables and lines that remain fairly straight in use. Wonderful for galvi rigging and bobstays and such as it provides body to hold slush that preserves the cable as well.

Done rightly, the ridgidity of WPS inhibits coiling the line.

The worming, of course, is about pointless over the splice's tucks. The puroose of worming is to fill the cable grooves and give the parcelling a better landing.

The service does not work well around the eye of the splice as the wrapes are crowded at the inside, spread at the outside, and subject to constant movement.

The service is not often a good chafe guard as once compromised anywhere it unravels.

It's not often that the eye needs chafe guard, but it can be nice to have something flexable that will also hold the eye a bit open. A stitched on leather will look nicer than a bit of PVC hose, if looks matter.

Leather, fire hose or PVC are the best chafe guards where the line goes over chocks or a dock edge. Put that on before the WPS lets go.

If you're working off a cement pier, chafe guard will not stand up. Either hang the dock line off a chain to the pier or - less damaging to the pier - lay a timber down to take the line's strain. Also put chafe guard on the line.

The WPS was a good exercise and will do no harm to the dock lines, but it was not really the right application.

Do you have a wheel or tiller that need some turk's heads and french whipping?

G'luck

[ssor]

Do you have a wheel or tiller that need some turk's heads and french whipping?

Got that. didit years ago. ;)