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Marking Gear - Nail Polish? 13-Apr-2011 At 7:34:25 PM Climboholic

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I don't see a need to mark gear. You usually only use one rack at a time anyway. Definately steer clear of electrical tape (especially yellow-green earth tape, everyone thinks is unique). When I got my rack I thought I'd copy a mate and mark it with tape. The tape has been gone for years but the stickiness remains.

I also don't see a need to mark the middle of the rope unless you regularly set up top ropes. The only time I've had a rope coiled or flaked and wanted to grab the middle is when tying 3 people into 1 rope. I assume most people usually feed it through a fixed anchor or around a boulder which negates the need to mark the middles as you flake it as you pull it through. Is there another way? Have I been wasting time all these years?

On 13/04/2011 wm wrote:
>Have tried nail polish and tape. Permanent marker is heaps better!
>
>1) you can write your name / initials / favourite doodle, so it's much
>more individual (there's only so many colours of nail polish and tape that
>people use)
>2) it lasts heaps longer (just write on the non-wearing surfaces - yes
>even carabiners and RPs have some). I get 5 years between refreshes on
>even the most heavily used gear...

Do you climb once a year? I used a marking pen (same thing?) to mark a belay device I dropped so I wouldn't use it and it rubbed off in my gear bag in a couple of months.