Most deltahedra are not knotted (unicursal) and that includes most of the deltahedra linked to here—Johnson solids J12 and J13 are knotted. If cursality is small, doubling a few strategically chosen edges in the deltahedron can splice together the link components into a knot that can be road-code woven into nearly the same shape. In particular, if a deltahedron is the Tait graph of an n-component link, just (n-1) edges of the Tait graph need to be doubled to convert the link to a knot. Here are the component counts for the links described by the following deltahedra.
J12 1
J13 1
J17 2
J51 4
J84 3
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