Re: [wdevine] Safety question: Dual Karabiners
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One thing that no one has mentioned yet is that sometimes if you clip a bolt with a biner and then fall on it it can create a small bur or sharp piece of metal sticking up from the inside of the biner. When you hook it into another biner it scars it so that the next time you hook your rope into it, the rope drags across the scar and slowly pulls at the sheath deteriorating it more rapidly. I say this as if the biner has been hooked into the bolt before. I also say this as if you are hooking two quickdraws together with biner touching biner.
EDIT: This is the reason that you always clip the same biner into the bolt and the same one into the rope each time when you are sport climbing.
(This post was edited by jae8908 on Nov 9, 2011, 9:03 PM)