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Originally Posted by CoombellKid
Jeeeeez that serious, do you have labels warning you about that on your
climbing gear? I thought climbing ropes of today are mostly made of
synthetics resistant to corrosives.
Cheers,CS
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Ropes aren't resistant to much at all. In rescue training, any contamination other than just water, sunlight soap or lux flakes (pure soap), or dirt is considered grounds to condemn a rope.
There used to be a practice of using insulation tape to mark the middle of a rope. We found a box that someone had made a handle for with a piece of old kernmantle rope and then wrapped insulation tape around it... the rope failed! It had only been lifting a few kilos... the adhesive from the insulation tape had softened the rope over many years. Needless to say, we stopped marking the centre of ropes with tape.
Al.