Splitting batten ends?

addicted2climbing · Post by **addicted2climbing** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 9:19 am

Hello,

I have a few battons that the ends are starting to split and I would like repair the ones that are splititng and reinforce the area on the ones that have yet to split. Anyhow a few ideas I have are to sleeve it with another thin wall of aluminum or brass tube (depending on what tube I can find that will have a similar ID to go over the OD of the batten) or I have a bunch of Carbon Tow and can just wrap some tow with epoxy and some layup tape to keep it pulled tight to the batten while it cures. I am leaning toward the tow method, but before I do it I was curious what the most common fix is.

Take care,

Marc

stebbins · Post by **stebbins** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 10:40 am

For what it is worth, when this happened to me on my Litespeed, Moyes suggested using clear sail-tape. I did that and it seemed to work. Ultimately, they replaced them - they aparently got a bad batch of tubing, and I wasn't the only one who had this issue.

addicted2climbing · Post by **addicted2climbing** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:47 am

I was also considering using using strapping tape since the filiments will act like the carbon tow. I was just trying to avoid using tapea nd wanted something a bit more permanent.