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Opposite and opposed 25-May-2011 At 9:31:16 PM rolsen1

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On 25/05/2011 Miguel75 wrote:
>It looks, to me, that the Chocky tech tips carabiners (blue gates in a
>vertical orientation) are opposite and opposed just like picture 'D' in
>the uoregon link.
>

Really? it seems to me that if the top biner was rotated 180 it would be same position as the biner underneath.

Oh, and if top roping with setups described on the second link most people would use screw gates.

>In the Chocky tech tips though it seems to me that the horizontal biners
>used for braking don't have reversed gates as the text advises. I base
>my assumption off the marching profile of the biner spines and am happy
>to be corrected.
>
>I'm a touchy/feeler learning so anytime I see something in a book or online
>I grab similar gear and try to replicate what I'm looking at. I grabbed
>2 spirits and placed them opposite and opposed and they look the same as
>the pics on Chocky.