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belay devices 4-Feb-2007 At 11:14:44 AM cheesehead

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>firstly several people mentioned that the reverso is no good for thin
>ropes, well a quick search of www.petzl.com produced the new REVERSINO
>(small version of reverso), it is for ropes 7.5 - 8.2 mm and weighs a mere
>57g, but of course it propbaly won't be available here in Aus for another
>couple o years....

The reverso is available here. It is crazy light, a scaled down reverso. It does have a very limited rope range though. 8.5s will not work with it. It really is as per the serving suggestions.

Tel, if you really are just 'standard belaying' and single-roping, a Black Diamond Air Traffic Controller has my vote. Works smoothly (better than most 'copies' in my opinion), but not too fast (smoother than my reverso, but slower for abseils); you can't put the rope in the wrong way (slow/fast), and you wouldn't want a different mode anyway. There are also a few reasons that I prefer the wire keeper to rigid ones (like Reverso).