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General Climbing Discussion

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Guess The Route

ChuckNorris
8-Feb-2012
9:40:39 PM
Easy - simey konkerin kerchoo.

da Bomb

shortman
8-Feb-2012
9:49:40 PM
somewhere in the southern hemisphere?

Macciza
8-Feb-2012
10:53:48 PM
Hmm
Given the background I'd be thinking Western States somewhere . .

Utah???

MM

Cool Hand Lock
9-Feb-2012
6:48:22 AM
Fishers Towers

Superstu
9-Feb-2012
8:07:41 AM
On 9/02/2012 Cool Hand Lock wrote:
>Fishers Towers

No, but getting very close.

Macciza
9-Feb-2012
10:20:38 AM
Moab. . .

Climboholic
9-Feb-2012
12:06:39 PM
On 7/02/2012 shortman wrote:
>The route follows a crack on the cross section of an alloy biner under
>a microscope.

Spot on!

Sorry for the delayed reply. Work has been busy the last few days and it's really cutting in to my Chocky time.

*Post edit*: A biner that failed through progressive crack growth...

Climboholic
9-Feb-2012
12:09:36 PM
On 7/02/2012 superstu wrote:
>Ok its an electron microscope image of mangalloy (alloy of steel and manganese).
>The indentations are from microscopic tasmanian tigers.

The filename was a bit of a red herring. It's an aluminium alloy. MAGNified ALuminium alLOY.

shortman
9-Feb-2012
12:32:12 PM
On 9/02/2012 Climboholic wrote:
>On 7/02/2012 shortman wrote:
>>The route follows a crack on the cross section of an alloy biner under
>>a microscope.
>
>Spot on!
>
>Sorry for the delayed reply. Work has been busy the last few days and
>it's really cutting in to my Chocky time.
>
>*Post edit*: A biner that failed through progressive crack growth...

Does this mean I win something? ;)

Climboholic
9-Feb-2012
1:30:08 PM
A broken biner! Give me your address and I'll send it to you... I'm serious, I'll even pay postage!

shortman
9-Feb-2012
8:52:15 PM
The Broken Biner Award.....??

Will ya frame it?
mikllaw
9-Feb-2012
10:36:37 PM
can you break a biner by fatigue in real life? or just tear it apart in a singular, orgasmic, overload

shortman
9-Feb-2012
10:46:32 PM
On 9/02/2012 mikllaw wrote:
>can you break a biner by fatigue in real life?

Possibly, if all the variables were to align at one single orgasmic moment.
One Day Hero
9-Feb-2012
11:22:09 PM
Ah c'mon, I'm the one who worked out it was a microscope photo (without cheating and looking at the filename), surely thats worth half a broken biner?

shortman
9-Feb-2012
11:32:18 PM
On 9/02/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>Ah c'mon, I'm the one who worked out it was a microscope photo (without
>cheating and looking at the filename), surely thats worth half a broken
>biner?

Yep. And I'll admit I was havin a total stab in the dark and u totally led me there.


Climboholic
10-Feb-2012
12:01:45 AM
On 9/02/2012 mikllaw wrote:
>can you break a biner by fatigue in real life? or just tear it apart in
>a singular, orgasmic, overload

Apparently you can break a biner from fatigue, but it requires many cycles at a load much greater than you'd expect from normal lead falls with dynamic rope.

Al alloy is very poor in fatigue and the only reason we don't get failures is the huge safety margin. I wonder if the new super lighweight biners are cutting into that margin?

I think it's only a matter of time until manufacturers start making carbon fibre biners. The bike industry has been doing it for years! The only hurdle will be some form of protective coating to mitigate impact damage.


The good Dr
10-Feb-2012
7:32:25 AM
On 10/02/2012 Climboholic wrote:

>I think it's only a matter of time until manufacturers start making carbon
>fibre biners. The bike industry has been doing it for years! The only hurdle
>will be some form of protective coating to mitigate impact damage.
>
I would love a few of those bike manufacturers biners .....

Climboholic
17-Feb-2012
1:05:07 PM
On 9/02/2012 shortman wrote:
>Does this mean I win something? ;)

Shortman,

The biner is on it's way.

Sorry for the dalay, it required a bit of work (you'll understand when it gets there).

Ps. Your PM box is full.
Olbert
17-Feb-2012
5:05:02 PM
Time has expired.

New photo



One Day Hero
17-Feb-2012
5:53:19 PM
Gay pose! Its the same one as that roof photo of yours from france

p.s. The 24 which traverses across Vera's roof

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