Samson Tubular FID Rope Splicer
Product Code=901.
The “fid length” for a rope is calculated as 21 times the rope diameter. As the rope diameter increases, so does the fid length. For example the fid length for a 4" diameter rope is 84".
The length of the splicing tool, called a “fid”, may or may not have a 1:1 correlation with the fid length for a given rope diameter. Refer to the example above and imagine trying to splice a 4" diameter rope with an 84" fid. To keep fids to a manageable length, they may be scaled to the actual fid length of a given rope diameter. Our tubular fids are 100% scale, meaning that the overall length of the tool is equal to the actual fid length for the corresponding rope diameter. Our wire fids are 1/2 scale, meaning that the length of the tool is 1/2 the actual fid length for the corresponding rope diameter.