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General Climbing Discussion

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OmegaPacific biners - a word of warning 18-Sep-2005 At 5:40:44 PM Wormz
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I'm going to have to agree with Shaggy on this one. Today I had a looked at an OP Jake and compared it to my Lucky and Mammut HMS Belay Biners, I noticed they all shared some "sharp" edges and although the OP Jake's shape might make it *slightly* more likely for the rope to fall across the sharp corner, there's still a chance with most belay biners I've seen, unless you file the edges down (Interestingly enough I noticed by BD keylock normal size biners don't have those edges). So I agree in saying that it's not some urgent new developement, the property of the biners has been around for a while now and it's only just being noticed, and the chance of failure can be reduced by keeping an eye on things while your belaying. Were the tests (for sheath stripping) done on biners other than the Jake?

Happy Climbing!

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