Please help, don't think rope will fit.

chappell943 · Faceplant Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 21 City: New Zealand

Hi guys, picked up my spool walls today, aluminium laser cut Smile

, freebie from a mate. Anyway it has a 14inch outer diameter and an 8 inch inner diameter, it looks rather small in terms of how much rope will fit on. I have 650ft of just plain normal ski rope. That's the best way to describe it. Does any one have experience with this size spool? Also how wide would you make the spool if you were in my situation?

Thanks

paulmc · Posted: Mar 23, 2010 8:38 am Post subject:

I would get some better rope to start with. Ski rope is far too strechy and will give you an uneven pull. Your spool dimensions seem okay. I would also put some holes for 7" and 6" diameter inner's if you can.

look for the amsteel everyone uses on here.

http://www.samsonrope.com/index.cfm?rope=192 see if you can find a source of this stuff in NZ.

cjbecker · Posted: Mar 23, 2010 9:20 am Post subject:

amsteel is the shizzle, get it. i use the bulletline but i decoated it and it is now the same as amsteel, well very close.

chappell943 · Faceplant Joined: 15 Mar 2009 Posts: 21 City: New Zealand

Cheers, ill see how the ski rope goes though, also what spool width would you use?

ShutItDown · Frontside 180 Joined: 03 Jan 2010 Posts: 452 City: KC

+1 for amsteel blue

PoopSkater · Posted: Mar 25, 2010 6:07 pm Post subject:

yeah amsteel is really strong and small

paulmc · Posted: Mar 26, 2010 8:23 am Post subject:

7" would be a good place to start, if your going to fast make the inner smaller, too slow, make the inner bigger. Its a trail and error thing when you get your winch working to iron out all the kinks and talyor the pull to your winch setup.

wakeboarderx03x · Posted: Mar 26, 2010 11:19 am Post subject:

I'm using 1/8 amsteel on an 8'' ID configuration and the spool is only 12''. So that's 4'' of space for the rope.
That being said, you don't need a big spool at all when using it.

robsmaze · Posted: Mar 26, 2010 12:30 pm Post subject:

with the amsteel or bulletline i use a 6" spool width (8" or 7" diameter.) Any bigger and the fairlead won't let it pile up near the spool walls and the piles of rope will "fold" over, causing annoying tangles when you are trying to walk the rope out.

As it is, i still get occasional tangles with the amsteel.