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GGK
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Registered: September 2003
Posts: 355
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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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Fencergrl
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Registered: April 2005
Location: Cougar Country
Posts: 8878
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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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Husband while looking at the e-mails: "I feel like I'm living with a high-end call girl". Me: "Why on earth do you say that?" Husband: "There's all these messages for men wanting to be pencilled in to your schedule" (referring to my fencing work in the schools).
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ThatReallyHurt
Boom!
Registered: October 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 5925
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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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Go? Fencing?
Question Game Queen
Registered: February 2005
Location: Southern Canadia
Posts: 15539
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Larrison
Senior Member
Registered: July 2004
Location: SoCal
Posts: 1117
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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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Zilverzmurfen
Épéeist Hive Queen
Registered: July 2002
Location: Sweden
Posts: 12754
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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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