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A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone. It is used to work with rope and canvas in marlinespike seamanship. A fid differs from a marlinspike in material and purposes. A marlinspike is used in working with wire rope, natural and synthetic lines, may be used to open shackles, and is made of metal. A fid is used to hold open knots and holes in canvas, and to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of the fid, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding. The gripfid has a jamming cleat to pull a cord back through the cord split by the fid's point. Modern fids are typically made of aluminum, steel, or plastic. In addition to holding rope open to assist the creation of a rope splice, modern push fids have markings for precise measurements in a variety of sizes of rope. The length of these fids is typically 21 or 22 times the diameter of rope to be spliced. A diameter rope would have any accompanying fid in length with hash-marks denoting the long and short fid measurements. A short fid is a fid length and a long fid is the overall fid length. Modern major rope manufacturers such as Yale Cordage, New England Ropes, and Samson Rope Technologies each have full sets of published splicing directions available on their websites. Typically, all splice directions measurements use fid-length as the unit of measurement.…
A fid is a conical tool traditionally made of wood or bone, used to work with rope and canvas. FID or fid may also refer to: FID, IATA code for Elizabeth Field (Suffolk County, New York), U.S. FID, the country code used by FIDE The Fid, a mountain in Antarctica F.I.D. (album), by Masami Akita Fédération internationale de documentation (FID), a defunct international organization, see International Federation for Information and Documentation Financial institutions duty, an Australian tax Firearms identification (often, FID card), defined as part of gun laws in Massachusetts Flame ionization detector Flight initiation distance Foreign internal defense Fréchet inception distance, image quality metric Free induction decay Focus-image distance, in projectional radiography Falkland Islands Dependencies, a former grouping of British territories in Antarctica and the South Atlantic Stop the Decline (Italian: ), an Italian political party ==See also==
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