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Cool.
It's a slightly different spelling. It's a Carabiner, or biner for short. (The "biner" part sounds like beaner)
They're from climbing. (Don't try it with this one!) Maybe I'll see if there are any photos of me climbing...
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They're very handy ZZ... hooking your keys to things, hooking your water bottle to your bag... any time you need an extra hand. I use them as a quick way of clipping things....
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Well, you can use it to hold a dog on a collar... you can also use it to keep wrenches together and organized, clip it on nylon straps to make a handle, or to carry paint cans or soccer equipment, I guess.
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Not to mention doing... uh... something with a broom or, um... a lady in a skirt.
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Tue September 26, 2006 2:23pm
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As noted, its a "caribiner", aka "beener". This looks like a cheap knock off instead of the rated ones you can get for climbing. (There's a bunch in my closet with some climbing ropes gathering dust along with my cams and chalk.)
Some beeners have the static load limit stamped in the side opposite the latch - but here that is covered over with that plastic cover. Flip open the "latch" and look on the ends where the latch swivels or if the end has a postive latch hook. It may give a strength (static hang) rating -- I've got some cheap ones which still are rated for 100 kg static hang. Not enough I'd go climbing with them (figure a dynamic falling load is 5-10x a static load, and figure out if you fell with a full ruck and put that load on the end of the rope....)
I've got maybe a half dozen of these cheap ones in the car so I can use them for tie downs and hooking things on my backpack and whatnot.
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Tue September 26, 2006 6:14pm
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This looks like a cheap knock off instead of the rated ones you can get for climbing.
Yes, it is a cheapo one and I'm not intending to use it for rock climbing or any other 'heavy duty' activity.
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