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a small study of unclipping from keyhole hangers 29-Apr-2015 At 10:18:07 AM kieranl

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On 29/04/2015 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 18/01/2011 kieranl wrote:
>>Thanks Mikl.
>>It does make it clear that carrots requiring removable hangers have some
>safety issues that bolts without some sort of fixed hanger don't. So, all
>other things being equal, something with a fixed or integral hanger should
>be used.
>>n.b. "All other things" include, but are not restricted to, visual impact
>and the likelihood of being lynched.
>
>Bumping an old topic but one that still has relevance, and probably more
>so to a few new readers on this site now.
>
>A question for kieranl. Would not the issue be narrow profile krabs in
>any kind of hangar?
Not sure what the point is here M9. A fixed hanger isn't going to come off a bolt just because it's clipped with narrow profile krab. And you don't want to get the gate of any krab to rotate into the eye of any bolt that you're using