[tkwalker]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

MN Fisher and Striperfan,

I just had a very unsettling experience in my garage this morning.

Opened a new pack of H2O Express 80 lb braid and spooled up a new rod and reel setup.

I cut off three feet of the line and wanted to test a snap swivel to see how much weight it would take to open up the snap swivel.

I tied a palomar knot to the snap swivel, wrapped the other end of the line around a wooden stick. Attached the snap swivel to a piece of 250 lb. planer board line which was tied to a 37.5 dumbell which had a 15 lb dumbell attached to it for a combined total of 52.5 lbs.

Doing a straight up slow lift, I didn't get the weights off the floor either time I tried. None of the knots gave way or broke, the snap swivel didn't open. The line broke both times between the two attachments. Not at the knots, but between the two points of attachment.

So what am I doing wrong? The line snapped before I got 52.5 lbs off the floor.

I have a 1500 ft spool of Power Pro 80 lb test line coming in the mail. Sure hope it tests out better than the H2O Express stuff did.

Merv, I am not sure that is a good test ... There is a lot of difference and dynamics in comparison with dead weight and active live weight ...

Example" I have a winch on my Jeep. The vertical weight it can lift is **1800# dead weight .. It is rated @ 5500# rolling weight (vehicle pull). I found when experimenting with Braids 20 years ago that I was breaking my line ... I went back to Mono that has a stretch coefficient ... no more breakage. Have you noticed on the Tuna Fishing show they only use mono do to the stretch, now they do break off usually near the terminal tackle.. <'TK><

(**rating for cable and drive line of winch)