Rich Keller
Contributor
Rich, thanks for posting that! I'll be sure to try learning that.
I don't know if It'll be the kind of solution I'm looking for for any kind of travel rigging on rental tanks but for my own tanks it could work. How strong is a splice vs a knot? I don't think I can splice a paracord though as the weaving is too complicated for that.
A knot will reduce the safe working load of a line by as much as 65% depending on the type of knot you are using. A splice will reduce the safe working load by only 10% and will not come undone. You can not do this with paracord or any braided line, you need three strand line, polypropylene line is the easiest line to work with in this instance.