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Columbian offers KARAT ropes that are 100% EStalon as well as various blends for fishing, river and work boat uses. For further information, including price, delivery, and technical field advice, write or call * 'M' * m

Columbian Rope Company

RO. Box 270

Guntown, MS 38849

Phone 601-348-2241 in MS 800-821-4391 Other

HERE THEY ARE!

Columbian KARAT Ropes ...the strongest, lightest, easiest to handle synthetic ropes we've ever manufactured.

Columbian KARAT ropes are made of extruded EStalon,® a highly sophisticated copolymer of polyester and polypropolene synthetics, with remarkable strength to weight characteristics.

POUND FOR POUND STRONGER THAN NYLON!

KARAT ropes' exceptional strength to weight ratio makes them superior in strength, in equal sizes, to nylon, polyester, polypro and blends thereof. This means that the user can safely down- size rope diameters, making KARAT working lines lighter, easier to handle, with half of nylon's elongation at working load levels.

For example, a 6" circumference (2" diameter) 100 ft. length of nylon weighs 94.4 lbs. with a 92,000 lb. tensile strength. The exact same KARAT rope weighs 76 lbs. with a 96,100 lb. tensile strength, making it not only lighter and stronger, but, at an equal cost per pound, 20% less expensive.

ABRASION RESISTANCE EQUAL TO DACRON.®

With a melting point higher than polypro, KARAT ropes exhibit excellent anti-abrasion qualities and wear extremely well. Like polypro, with its low specific gravity, KARAT ropes float, but there the similarity ends. In equal diameters, KARAT ropes are 90% stronger. Flexible, with ultra violet stability, KARAT ropes do not absorb water, but are actually stronger when wet, by test.

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