Metal cylindrical tool tapering to a point at one end.
Marline spike.
Exhibition Label Text: A rope splicer used a spike to open up the gap between
two strands of a wire rope in order to insert other splicing tools.
L 41.2 x 3.0 cm in diameter
Digital image on Keeper’s computer – S:/Keeper/MyPictures/Exhibitions/DisplayNewVisitorCentre. Taken October 2003.
03/11/98 Several unnumbered rope splicing tools found on display in the Old Power House but from the descriptions given on the computer database there was no way to identify which was which so numbers with no current location were assigned to the most likely items which were numbered, removed from display and packaged.