Thanks for the info.. pd- I esp like the idea of the the line through the bolt hole- that would make like so much easier if I were to take the whole system out.
I think that is probably what happened- the original line got worn away by the cleat so they cut it off and spliced that piece of spectra to it- the original line is clearly not long enough. odd they used spectra though- doesn't hold well in cleats for the most part. I haven't downhauled to the max yet - I hope that the original line is long enough to do that.
W- I think I will replace the cleat sometime soon with an eye- that is the way we did it on the HT and it worked well... but then cleat is certainly faster.
BTW- W- why not flared eyestraps? I would use this probably-
http://www.apsltd.com/Tree/d273000/e272183.aspor:
http://www.apsltd.com/Tree/d273000/e272158.asp I like the ferrule
