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Synthetic is a lot easier to handle, period. It doesn't kink, birdcage, crushed, get broken wires that poke, or have that curled set to it. It makes my multimount a good 20lbs+ lighter and you don't need gloves.
I replaced a wire rope that had all of the above problems. It was worth the price for a synthetic replacement. If I had a new wire rope I might have waited until that was damaged enough to warrant replacement, which if used seldomly will be a while.
Mounting a synthetic can be more problematic since the lug terminals don't stay on very well and like those for wire rope have zero load capacity. Synthetic is also very slippery. I cut off my lug and added an eye splice that I looped back into around my drum. In theory my synthentic can't come off my drum even without the minimum 8 wraps unless it fails. (not that I'll spool it out that far)
Synthetic will fade from the sun even though it is coated for UV protection, this should lower the strength eventually(years later). Thus I keep mine indoors when not on the trail. Synthetic does have more problems with wear and thus is more likely to fail on the trail. Unlike wire rope you can fix a synthetic line on the trail and splices are just as strong. I have even done it.
Only you can decide if you will use it enough to warrant it.
Geoff
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