Making A Monkey Fist Knot

Any help much needed/appreciated.

PLURR
FireMorphster
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[This message has been edited by FireMorphster (edited 02 April 2002).]

I was using kevlar rope that is nominally 0.5" thick, but pretty stretchy, so it necked down to a smaller diameter when stretched. It took about 96" to make a basic monkey-fist knot with this stuff, if I recall correctly. I made a set of "whip poi" where I left 14" pigtails at each end, and joined the ends with ring clamps to a quick-link, and hooked the quick-link to a short section of ball-chain, to provide some heat isolation and swivelling action. In the end, there was about 10" of whip and knot (there was some overlap of the rope at the top), and about 6" of ball-chain.

Results from these whip-poi were unsatisfactory: the pigtail sections burned out after about a minute, and the friend I made them for suffered four freak burns on separate occasions using them. I want to try again with different rope. I've been using plain monkey-fist poi without whip sections, and those are fine. They're a little more aerodynamic than my interleave wicks, so they spin a little faster (doesn't suit my style), but other than that, I like 'em.

Good luck.

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"With a bit of luck, his life was ruined; always thinking that just behind some narrow door, in his favourite bars, men in red woolen suits are getting incredible kicks from things he'll never know."

I hear there's this internet thingy where they have search engines where you type things in and you can find stuff out

Or ask somebody who already looked and found Ropers Knot Page - The Frequently Asked Knots Page.

This one's on the house

http://www.sacdelta.com/safety/knots/m_fista.htm

Animated instructions. Cool. Even a klutz like me got it after only a couple tries.

For my own monkey fists, I found that the standard knot was a little too small and light. The monkey fist is basically three loops each on three axes; I modified that to four loops each on three axes (and I'm thinking of going for five next).

I'm off to create
Thanx again for the ideas

FireMorphster
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[This message has been edited by FireMorphster (edited 03 April 2002).]

 Written by: adamrice


The best thing would be to use something that would absorb fuel--more wicking, or perhaps a wad of cotton wool (which wouldn't add any appreciable weight dry, but would soak up a lot of fuel).