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Hi, my rope is an absolute mess at the moment totally full of kinks. Ive just stuck it in the washing machine (in a pillow case, 30 degrees with just water) is there any way i can untangle it once it comes out?

Thanks,
MAT

In reply to mat cooper:

i usally daisy chain mine before washing , easy to untangle then!

peace

dan

In reply to mat cooper: Sorry to state the bleedin' obvious - but look for loops. One end won't have migrated through a mess of tangles, it'll be loops doing it - so the last thing you want to do is start at one end to sort it out.

g'luck

In reply to mat cooper:

I used to have a marlow rope that kinked really badly. You need to give them a chance to shake out at one end - either drag it up a local crag a few times with the bottom end totally free to untwist, or failing that trail it round a local field for a bit. If the rope is prone to it you'll need to do it every time it gets bad.

The damage is usually done when you first unwind the rope after buying - its much quicker to drop the pile and pull one end out, but kinks it for life. Unwind it as if its on a drum.

In reply to mat cooper:

Take something heavy to your climbing wall with you when it is quiet, untangle your rope, lead it up (an overhang) and then tie off one end to the ground anchor and hang you heavy object off the other end.

Leave for 15-30mins, boulder. The rope will slowly unwind itself removing the kinks. When your suspended heavy object stops spinning, pull some rope through and unwind the next section of rope.

This will p+ss people off if it is busy thou. it does take a little while to untwist.

Once untwisted it should not knot itslef again so easily if you coil it properly and don't use friction hitchs etc.

In reply to mat cooper:

When its dried, dragging the rope out across a field often helps. Look out for dogshit, mind !