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How the shape of a carabiner influences its breaking load

Slacktivity has conducted breaking load tests with pear-shaped and oval-shaped steel-carabiners...

Slacktivity has conducted breaking load tests with pear-shaped and oval-shaped steel-carabiners to figure out how much tri-loading weakens carabiners.

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Justin Lawson
6 years ago

Not what I expected! Good old oval biners 🙂

Ghaz
Ghaz
6 years ago
Reply to  Justin Lawson

If the force of jumping on a slackline only exerts up to 13kN of force, I don’t think the difference between 25 and 50kN is that relevant! Nonetheless, gear wears and gets weaker with time, and poor equalisation of anchors is never a good idea.

Joie Gahum
Joie Gahum
6 years ago

Nice! I hope my roadeavour is as good as that.

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