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So, funny thing. Turns out this was actually a brand new rope. Newest one in the gym. It's just rough af and the fly-aways on it were numerous and long. Project's done and I'm real happy with it. I took the whole thing down, blow torched the rope from top to bottom twice to burn off the...

Hey folks, I'm a coach and the head of maintenance at my gym and I want to refurbish and restore an old climbing rope we have. While we have 3 modern soft white ropes, the ones in question is an old manila rope that's probably 50 years old. Many fibers have splintered out, but the rope...