UKC

I should be asking Beal but does anyone understand how the unicore treatment(?) works?

I had to trim my unicore rope down at the crag today and I was playing about with the tat end a little bit and noticed the sheath came off the core very easily.

It looks like there is a dried glue residue on the core so I was wondering if they are glued together and over time the bond has worn away leaving me with essentially a standard rope.

I'm not too bothered about any of this because I bought the rope entirely because of the price but I am left thinking unicore is all a load of bollocks.

In reply to Tommyads:

Yeah quick google suggests it's a type of glue.

The unicore Beals from what I can gather are still not as wear resistant as mammut or elderid

In reply to CurlyStevo:

Which page? I couldn't find much on google just recycled bits from the beal page.


I've never thought it was anything to do with wear resistance anyway, just that the sheath shouldn't slide off the core.

I also remember seeing that you don't really need a hot knife to cut the rope because it doesn't fray (ideal for at the crag) but I had to re do it at home on the hob.

These are all small problems I admit but I don't like thinking I've got a product that doesn't do what it's supposed to.

In reply to Tommyads:

Read some stuff from folks that have said getting the rope wet destroys the bonding. My end started fraying after pulling the rope on 4x50m abseils.

In reply to philhilo:


That's surely more to do with the whiplash effect. All ropes will do that in those circumstances.