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General Climbing Discussion

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When do climbers replace their gear? wires-cams... 4-Sep-2006 At 8:34:04 PM LGJ
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I dropped a biner on the weekend. It's one of my two HMS/belay biners, and so I see it as a critical part of the system, unlike eg a wire gate off a draw. Basically I dropped it at a belay stance, and it tinkled down to settle about 3m below me.

My immediate thought was that I'd have to chuck it. My initial training was that if something was dropped more than 1m, out come the bolt cutters (that was a mine rescue team). I've been thinking on and off about it for the last couple of days though, still unsure whether I should chuck it or keep it.

I was going to ask the question, but I think I've come to a conclusion after reading the previous posts anyway. It does seem pretty unlikely that it would've sustained some kind of damage, so I think I'll keep on using it.

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