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Re: poly cord advice

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
IMO, don't even bother with melt-connecting polycord, go with hollow-core round belting and use connectors to link ends together. It's 1000x easier than fighting with a soldering iron and trying to get the tension just right, and it works exactly the same. The only tools required are a pair of scissors.
Hollow-core belting with connectors isn't permanent, whereas welding solid-core belting is. 423 used hollow-cord belting for our intake last year and we would pop cords a number of times each competition. At one point a ref (or someone official I don't remember) told us we need to fix the problem or we would start getting fouls. We replaced all the belts and that corrected the problem temporarily, but it came back after a number of matches. This isn't to say that hollow-core belting doesn't work (it does), just that IMO the time you save from tracking down popped belts from field staff and re-connecting them outweighs the slight increase in complexity of assembly. YMMV
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