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as the slit runs straight down the rope, you won’t The Shackle With the gauze taped down, it’s time
hurt them. to slide on the shackle (Figure 4-18D).

Gauze Taping You can now see the fibers inside Tucking Tuck the core in at the mark on the
the cut. If the ink mark did not penetrate, mark the cover, through the eye, and about one-and-a-
fibers at this spot. Then grasp the gauze at the mark, half cover tail lengths down the standing part
pull toward the end, and the gauze will strip off. (ten tracer lengths past where the core first came
If any gauze projects past the mark, cut it shorter out). Before entering the tool, pull out lots of extra
(Figure 4-18C). core to bunch up the cover and make more room
To keep the gauze from coming loose past this inside.
point, tape it down to the fibers. Start the tape on If you’re using the Splicing Wand (shown),
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the gauze, wrap it on smoothly and snugly towards snare only ⁄2 inch or so of the end. The easiest
the end, with minimum overlap on the turns of the way to do this is to push the taped part through
tape. Stop taping as soon as the gauze is secured, the snare, pull the mass of yarns through, and then
preferably short of the mark on the core. The tape back the end up to the position shown in Figure
should be on firmly enough that the gauze can’t slide 4-18E. Snare firmly.
on it (see Figure 4-18D). Masking tape works best. No matter what tool you are using, tucking is a

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E cover mark

Figure 4-18D–E. Tape the remaining gauze to the
core fibers, stopping the tape at the second mark.
Slide on the shackle (D). Tucking the core (E).

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