Dacron is polyester. There are polyester ropes, such as
that made by
Sterling: <http://www.sterlingrope.com/products/155017> It is fine
for caving. I don't know why it is not called Dacron. That's
probably someone's specific trade name, and any other company or
slightly different formulation is called something else.
Mark
At 06:00 PM 6/6/2011, Don Cooper wrote:
But speaking of the history of caving rope -
I saw the transition of nylon parachute lines (550 cord) to dacron
and later to kevlar. Dacron is still.
Dacron has some fine qualities - viscous damping for instance. Not
"stretchy" but not completely static either.
Any ideas why (it seems that) it was never used for climbing or caving?
-WaV
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