General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
OmegaPacific biners - a word of warning	11-Sep-2005 At 3:38:40 PM	Hatman
Message
I have two of the "jake" biners. I have noticed that they seem to get cross loaded more than my regular biners. I originaly used the omega SBGII with them to belay. when loaded sudenly (fall) and crossloaded with the belay device stem in the danger (sharp) area, It can be very hard to get the biner orientated corectly because of the sight dip where the gate meets the body. This forces you to lower the leader (top roper) with the rope over the sharp edge! Very disturbing. From now on Me thinks I only use my jake's for setup! The SBGII device is sitll my favorite belay/abseil device and I have no problems useing it on other biners.

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