Product Overview
Black 550 parachute cord, coreless, Berry & NIR compliant. Made in the USA with solution dyed, INVISTA CORDURA® TRUELOCK™ yarn. Solution dyed, as opposed to piece dyed, nylon yarn is inherently NIR compliant. Excellent for zipper pulls, harness rigging, lacing, and more. Because it is coreless, it's more like a flat tubular webbing approx 2mm x 5mm as shown in the product pictures.
A coreless cord meters more consistently in automatic strip cutters. Checkout the video below or click here to view it on YouTube. A coreless cord means drastically reduced touch labor involved with gutting and heat sealing.
Is it milspec? Because PIA-C-5040 does not allow for solution dyed yarn, we can't call this milspec. This is otherwise made to as near milspec / PIA-C-5040 (superseding MIL-C-5040H) as possible. If we didn't use solution dyed yarn, it would be milspec. In an ongoing effort for signature reduction, we used solution dyed yarn for NIR compliance.
Sold per 50' hank. QTY 1 = 50 feet (15.24m). Save for mill splices, more than one will ship as a continuous piece. Not for life support or load bearing applications.
