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SRENE anchors may go the way of the dinosaur 16-Mar-2006 At 3:52:14 PM shmalec

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On 15/03/2006 uwhp510 wrote:
>> Doesn't matter whether there is a knot.
>>Its just angles and is not really affected by stretch/extension unless
>>the two pieces are sitting next to each other with no V effect.
>
>This is almost completely wrong.
>
>>The greatest equalising element is the knot.
>
>What does this mean?

Clarification - if you have a two leg anchor with 45 deg angle, having a knot will make little difference even if one leg is twice as long as the other. The angle isn't going to change that much. If all your pieces are colinear then you may have issues like the one dimensional case described earlier.

As far as the knot goes. The knot tightens a fair bit under load (especially if its a fig 8). I imagine that if one leg is taking more load, this knot tightening would bias towards extending that one. Given how little most shock cord/tape stretches, this is probably important.