![]() ![]() For my money, Braided Dacron ticks all the right boxes every time and I can see no reason why I would not pick it as my best kite string. This refreshing discovery is made possible by the slippery quality of Braided Dacron, you will find that you are easily able to unravel knots in Braided Dacron and not forced into using your nails and teeth in a painstaking operation that is best left until ‘later’ at the back of that cupboard as we discovered earlier. What is also brilliant about Braided Dacron is that in the less likely, yet inevitable appearance of knots at some point, then Braided Dacron is surprisingly easy to unknot. Braided Dacron seems to somehow, magically avoid becoming tangled, resisting all but the more serious attempts at getting your kite string tangled.īraided Dacron is not impervious to becoming tangled but it is tangle-resistant to an acceptable level of usability. Braided Dacron is also magic, or at least it seems that way, because it hardly ever becomes entangled, unlike all those other strings. Heavy gauge steel wire for example is very hard wearing, is certainly very strong but is also very heavy and for kite flying we want as little excess weight as possible, literally dragging us and our kite down.īraided Dacron is very light despite its strength and durability, perfect for flying kites. Our kite string will have to undergo significant force and pressure during its lifetime, so it has to be strong and hard wearing. Strength is important for our kite string, we do not want to have our line snapping unnecessarily at the first sign of an unexpectedly heavy gust of wind. Braided Dacron is strong and light and resistant to tangling. ![]() The best kite string, or the best type of kite string is Braided Dacron kite string, This is the brand name for a type of braided-polyester kite string. So, as we can see, kite string is a very important part of kite-flying and we are going to have a look at some different types of kite-lines and some of the different reels that are available for utilising your kite-string. Others of you may have had an experience of kite-flying that ended abruptly when your kite-line snapped and your kite and remaining line tangled themselves up nicely in a nearby tree. We didn’t necessarily know what sort of kite it was and we didn’t really know what sort of line it had either, other than that it was some sort of string and became knotted and entangled easily and often.ĭoubtless we had fun and might have gone flying kites more often if it was not for the fact that last time you went flying, possibly your first and last time, the string had ended up in such a snarled and tortuously unapproachable heap that disentanglement was postponed until some, never arriving, later point and the kite dispatched to the back of a cupboard, possibly never to be seen again, certainly never to be unravelled or flown. Flying kites is not hard, anyone can do it and I am sure nearly all of us will have had a go at some time in our lives. ![]() Welcome to the wonderful world of kites, kite string or line and kite-string reels in particular. ![]()
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