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OmegaPacific biners - a word of warning 12-Sep-2005 At 8:26:47 AM brat

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I was at a local climbing gym where they used the biners mentioned to tie in to a full body harness through both tie in points rather than the belay loop for route setting. I had the loops re-made as the biner wore against the harness due to the aforementioned edge, didn't seem like an immediate safety issue at the time (ie was a problem over a period rather OMG bring me down!). I actually gave them one of my own screw gate biners to use rather then re-damage the harness, I hadn't thought about the other possibilities but in hindsight I'm not suprised, the edge isn't overly obvious but it is machined, therefore would have a serrated bread knife effect under the right(wrong) conditions.