Complete Guide to Carabiners - Shapes, Styles & How they Fail | Ep.2
Detailed Class on Carabiners. You will learn why there are so many different Shapes / Sizes & Styles of the Carabiners. How to choose & use them Safely and all the ways a Carabiner could Fail on loads lower than what they are rated for (kN on the spine of the Carabiner) and how to avoid that.
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00:00 Intro
00:44 Aluminium Alloy
01:34 Steel
01:54 Hot-Forged
02:48 Shapes - Oval vs D
03:55 Shapes - HMS (Pear)
05:08 Shapes - Belay carabiners
06:52 Shapes - QuickLink
07:43 Gate - Non-Locking
08:59 Gate - How to Correctly use 2 non-locking carabiners?
10:22 Gate - Screw gate
11:17 Gate - Auto-Locking
13:24 Size - Is smaller better?
14:57 Strength - What matters in real world?
18:08 Strength - Can you break Cross-Loaded carabiner?
19:44 Strength - Nose Hook - Dangerous!
20:59 Strength - Carabiner bent over the edge
22:10 Strength - Triload
24:08 When to Retire your carabiner?
25:43 Microfractures - Can you Drop your carabiner?
27:20 Bonus question
Choosing Guide for Beginners
For bolted single pitch climbing:
1x Belay Device Carabiner:
Mammut Bionic Cross Lock -
Mammut Smart HMS -
Black Diamond Grid Lock
EDELRID HMS Bulletproof
1-2x small size, D shape, autolocker or screw gate for Tether / Lanyard or other use cases (having multifunctional carabiners is always handy):
Nordwand Micro Lock:
The fastests screw gate I’ve ever tried, but most of them work fine, so choose whatever is pretty to you.
For bolted multipitches you might want to add:
2x small, D shape screw gate for connecting anchor to bolts:
Nordwand Micro Lock:
1x bigger, screw or autolocker for Master point:
Workhorse HMS:
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Additional resources:
Corrosion in Climbing Carabiners
Forces at work in a real fall
Black Diamond QC LAB: WEAKNESS OF NOSE-HOOKED CARABINERS
DMM Nose Hooked tests
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