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Re: What's the best rope?

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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint View Post
You initial post on this subject disqualified the rope because a glass bead isn't flexible (even though glass is a liquid?) Blue note completely conflits with you definition of flexible.
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Originally Posted by engunneer View Post
As an inspector, that rope would not pass my inspection and would be brought to the LRI as it contains glass beads (which are not fibers or flexible, per I04).
I was not saying the rope is not flexible. I was saying the glass beads that are a component of the rope are not themselves flexible, and they also not fibers. The rule (not the blue box) is pretty explicit. "consist entirely of flexible, non-metallic fibers" seems pretty clear to me. If a flexible rope contains materials that are not flexible OR are metallic OR are not fibers, then the rope by definition does not "consist entirely of flexible, non-metallic fibers"

On a side note, glass is not a liquid. (Reference)

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Originally Posted by Fusion_Clint View Post
A fiber is really just a small piece of anything. see webster below.


Definition of fiber
1
: a thread or a structure or object resembling a thread: as
a (1) : a slender root (as of a grass) (2) : an elongated tapering thick-walled plant cell void at maturity that imparts elasticity, flexibility, and tensile strength
b (1) : a strand of nerve tissue : axon, dendrite (2) : one of the filaments composing most of the intercellular matrix of connective tissue (3) : one of the elongated contractile cells of muscle tissue
c : a slender and greatly elongated natural or synthetic filament (as of wool, cotton, asbestos, gold, glass, or rayon) typically capable of being spun into yarn
d : mostly indigestible material in food that stimulates the intestine to peristalsis —called also bulk, roughage

So what exactly is your reason for saying this isn't legal?
does a small round glass bead resemble a thread? I would say no. That already disqualifies your definition at definition 1 before you even got to 1(c). in any case, 1(c) calls for a "slender and greatly elongated" filament, which a small glass bead also does not resemble. Therefore, my reason for suspecting that it is not legal is based on the very definition of a fiber that you provided.

Lastly, at no point did I say definitively that it is illegal, only that I would question it as an inspector and get a second opinion from my boss at the event, who is the LRI. If the event LRI is unsure, he or she can take it up to the CRI, who is on call to all LRIs during an event, or to FRC HQ. that is the process.
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