At the end of the show, a hangman's noose is made to kill the actress. The rope has a "flaw" in it and breaks after it is put on her and pulled. The noose is tied on stage. There will be safety cautions taken for those concerned!

The rope will be a nylon rope with a cotten core - think utility rope.

I have started with burning the ends of the "flaw" and stitching it back together with sewing thread. Come to find out, thread like other things, is stronger in numbers. So still working on it.

It gets handled quite a bit on stage before the actual break.

Has anyone done something like this before with good results?

 

Tim

 

Thanks drose!

 

This is exactly where my mind was headed. Did you just stitch the rope a couple of times or more. Do you remember? I am assuming to use low grade thread to assure the break.

 http://www.predatek.com/2_hn_knot.htm

When line tention is applied, the noose loop line slips thru the rubber band under the wrap turns, The knot releases & the rope parts.

 Both our oldest sons & daughter, were competitive skydivers. I'm glad to say they finnaly grew up & now resist the urge to leap out of a perfectly good airplane.

Although our second oldest is one of the owners  of 'Skydive Express' skydiving centre, training & demostration team. Although he now only jumps, as a camera man for competitive video taping, for piont scoring. Our daughter still jumps now & then, but gave it up when she was pregnant with our first grand child. The oldest son entered an areement not to do extreme sports, with the Standing Commitee of Parliment, where he is the Chef. Because he had a number of accidents that had laid him up for a few months each time. this upset the catering for our politicians, as it happened at christmas time for 2 years in a row.