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Slackline - fatigue effects on biners? 16-Jun-2010 At 4:08:23 PM alg
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On 16/06/2010 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 15/06/2010 alg wrote:
>>one for the engineers/metallurgists...
>>
>>From what I can work out it should take 10,000,000 plus cycles but just
>>thought i'd see if anyone had any thoughts.
>
>Its not actually engineers whom you seek, do you think someone can just
>jot out an accurate answer to that question on a piece of paper?
>
>Rather than theorists, ask the guys in the lab........there are thousands
>of people out there logging thousands of hours boinging on exactly the
>same setup you will use. I don't know why they do it, seems rather boring
>to me.....but, the experiment has been done and will yield much more useful
>info than wanky speculation.
>
>So, anybody broken a biner slacklining? Seen one break? Have reliable
>reports of them breaking?
>
>My guess is that it doesn't happen cause you'd have heard about it already...........hey,
>why can't you afford 4 old biners for slackline duties? Are you a single
>mum?

I was only after a ball-park figure/experienced opinion, fatigue failure's fairly predictable.

There're heaps of conflicting opinions and stories out there, people who've used alluminium wiregates for years without a problem and people who've snapped lockers and broken their legs. I thought maybe a bit of wanky speculation'd be handy in weeding out the bullshit. Plus i was interested.

...gotta go, my kids are fighting

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