Prepare Rope Ends with Clamps

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Adding New Rope To A 24" Extension Ladder. Re-rope a ladder. How to repair a ladder.

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What happens here

Take one end of the new rope and use a lighter to carefully melt the fibers, preventing them from fraying. Once melted, take a 3/8-inch rope clamp and feed both sides of the melted rope end through it to form a loop. Use a pair of pliers to firmly clamp down on the rope clamp, securing the loop tightly. This loop will be used to attach the rope to the bottom rung of the ladder. Repeat this process for the other end of the rope once the final length is determined later in the project.

Goal: Create a secure loop at one end of the rope using a rope clamp.

Tools and materials

3/8-inch Rope Clamp — Creating a secure loop in the rope
Lighter — Melting rope ends
Pliers — Securing the rope clamp

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doesn't have a rope on it. I'm going to start off. I got my rope here, and it's been cut. I'm going to just take and melt the ends so it doesn't fray anymore. Now it's Now that it's melted, we can begin working. I also got a another end right here that's already been melted, too. And I'll start working. You can work with either end of the rope. Make sure you have enough rope that's going to extend from the bottom rung of the ladder up through your pulley down to the other end and give you enough to actually extend the ladder. And we start this task off. I'm going to take my rope clamp here. Just open it up. And this is a 3/8 inch 1/2 inch rope clamp. And we'll show you what this rope clamp is actually used for. We're going to take and make a loop with this rope clamp like this. Put the rope and both sides of it. And it's just going to clamp down and it's going to hold a rope in a loop. Just take and use our pliers. Clamp it down. We'll show you what that loop is for. So, get it clamped down good and tight. Now, we got a a loop made right here.

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