Hi All
What are you using to cut Dyneema? There seems no better way to turn a good pair of scissors into trash then spend a couple of hours rigging. Ceramic? Clauss carbon steel? What works for you?
Thanks
Hi All
What are you using to cut Dyneema? There seems no better way to turn a good pair of scissors into trash then spend a couple of hours rigging. Ceramic? Clauss carbon steel? What works for you?
Thanks
I use sharp scissors, but I either snip the line right at the tip of the scissors/blades, or I just "saw" with the sharp blades of the scissors. Sawing dyneema works well for slippery or waxed dyneema, as they tend to just sort of flatten when cut normally with a pair of scissors.
At a rigging shop they use a "hot knife". Its an exacto blade in a soldering iron.
I use wire snips and a butane lighter.
Surgical shears work pretty well. They are cheap and have a slightly serrated edge. When they loosen up throw them away and get a new pair.
I use good quality wire cutters. The smaller the better.
I use these Fiskars titanium shears (Fiskars Titanium Nitride No. 8 Shop Snip 12-79266984), pretty cheap from Home Depot. I cut a lot of Dyneema and never had to replace them yet, it's been at least a couple of years.
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