Making your own Ropes

[TheGatzby]

I am still playing mind games at this point.

It will be interesting to see what kind of result you get.

 

[TheGatzby]

Oooops. Double post.

 

[Steef66]

i guess i am just wondering if the strands have to be unwrapped first or not. The head of my machine has a variable speed drive on it and I can also change it`s direction and I can also control the feedrate on the takeup spool, so I don`t see a scenario where what you said would happen, but hey. I haven`t tested it yet either. I am still playing mind games at this point.

That rope walk works the same way as a normal rope walk. That makes sense, because there’s only one way to make rope. People have been doing it this way for 2,000 years. The only difference is that the endless rope walk has a constant supply of yarn. The strands are twisted in one direction, and in principle, rope is formed automatically as the strands twist together. This happens naturally because the strands are twisted in the same direction. If that strand already consists of twisted rope and it turns out that the direction of your twist is opposite to that of the strand, then it will untwist the strand. It’s just simple math. The rope produced will not be stable because it lacks the natural tendency to form rope.