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Warning: 169 kg breaking strength lower offs 20-Mar-2009 At 7:52:47 PM atreyudelacy

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On 16/03/2009 gfdonc wrote:
>OK crew with the aid of Mikl's pics and my typing we now have a warning
>sheet.
>

Nice work on this... If its not too late to offer a suggestion?

Perhaps a brief description of the breaking strength in terms of a person being lowered off would add
more urgency to the warning.

eg. "this is equivelant to an 85kg climber being lowered off".... something along those lines... as i
would anticipate that some people out there might think that "i weigh heaps less than 169kg...
therefore its not something to be overly worried about"

Also, perhaps where you quote the 169kg breaking strength you could also put the respective kN value
in brackets i.e. "169kg (1.69kN)"... so when you tell people that the biners should be stamped with
14kN, they realise how little 169kg actually is....

I know these things may seems obvious to most.... but even in my very limited couple of years
climbing, i have seen some real dumb f***ers......

Just a suggestion.