Article in Soaring magazine on making an aerotow rope

On Apr 23, 4:13*pm, Tony wrote:
I think you're looking for March 2011, Page 30. You might also be interested in Tony Way's letter in May 2011 about the Water Knot shown in the article.

This how-to article can be found on the SSA web site (if you are an
SSA member) in the Soaring Magazine archive.
http://www.ssa.org/Archive/ViewIssue...=2011&month=03, page 30.

This article was written by the official "rope-dude" at our club. I
did re-read the comments about the Water Knot in the May 2011 issue
(page 7). Our experience is having had no issues with these coming
apart using the water knot over the multiple years they have been in
use. The difference *MAY* be that we use the water knot on wider 1"
flat nylon "tubular" webbing rather than the 9/16" used in the test
article mentioned. I also believe that Greg read that testing review
and did lengthen the loose ends as mentioned.

My $0.02.

- John

One other comment. I do remember another article in Soaring about
making tow ropes. I can visualize the pictures in the article; he
used a hand made copper fid, puts the tow rope through some black
tubing, and used electrical tape at the business end. But I cannot
find the article in the archives. I searched for "tow rope" without
luck. I think the search engine may be not quite right because
putting in "water knot" got zero hits. Hmmmm.

At 15:50 24 April 2013, JohnDeRosa wrote:
One other comment. I do remember another article in Soaring about
making tow ropes. I can visualize the pictures in the article; he
used a hand made copper fid, puts the tow rope through some black
tubing, and used electrical tape at the business end. But I cannot
find the article in the archives. I searched for "tow rope" without
luck. I think the search engine may be not quite right because
putting in "water knot" got zero hits. Hmmmm.


Soaring Magazine, March 2011, page 30. Tough Tow Ropes: Simple solution for
towrope ends that last. By Greg Palmer
Chuck Coyne

At 15:50 24 April 2013, JohnDeRosa wrote:
One other comment. I do remember another article in Soaring about
making tow ropes. I can visualize the pictures in the article; he
used a hand made copper fid, puts the tow rope through some black
tubing, and used electrical tape at the business end. But I cannot
find the article in the archives. I searched for "tow rope" without
luck. I think the search engine may be not quite right because
putting in "water knot" got zero hits. Hmmmm.


Soaring Magazine, March 2011, page 30. Tough Tow Ropes: Simple solution for
towrope ends that last. By Greg Palmer
Chuck Coyne