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The 8.6mm Cobra is continuing to be Beal's best workhorse half rope. Solid and dependable and is the great classic for a high number of multitudes of climbing.
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The 8.6mm Cobra is continuing to be Beal's best workhorse half rope. Solid and dependable and is the great classic for a high number of multitudes of climbing. It's technical and robust enough to sustain the most difficult loadings and is now even better because it now benefits from all the advantages of the new Unicore technology.
The Unicore technology effectively links the core and the sheath of these dynamic ropes in a way that broadly limits movement between the two parts so that they work better together. Unicore ropes eliminate sheath slippage, allow for safe escape should the sheath be cut, makes rope cutting easy with a simple blade without heating and reduces shrinkage in water by more than 50%. Unicore ropes stay more supple, more agreeable to handle and have a longer lifetime.
The Beal Cobra 8.6mm ll Unicore also features Golden Dry technology, a process whereby every individual core and sheath strand is treated with a hydrophobic chemical formula before the rope is manufactured. This helps to achieve an astonishingly durable and waterproof rope.
UNICORE:
An astonishing process, bonding rope sheath and core without affecting the rope’s suppleness. If the sheath is cut or torn, the core and sheath remain bonded together. With a standard rope, if the sheath is cut by abrasion over an edge, a frequent occurrence in the mountains, it slides and gathers over some metres. It then becomes impossible to pass this zone, whether ascending or descending.
GOLDEN DRY: Process whereby every individual core and sheath strand is treated with a hydrophobic chemical formula before the rope is manufactured. The treatment is polymerised at high temperatures. This polymerisation process together with every strand being coated increases the longevity of the treatment. A GOLDEN DRY rope combines 2 treatments: the core’s treatment is added to the DRY COVER sheath treatment. This helps to achieve an astonishingly durable and waterproof rope.
A GOLDEN DRY rope:
BEAL ropes with a GOLDEN DRY treatment absorb less than 3% of water when tested to the UIAA’s standards: