Best carabiner for racking nuts?
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Looking for lightweight and snag free. |
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Just get a key nose or a hood wire, after that its whatever is your personal preference and on clearance lol |
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I've found ovals rack nuts the best for me with less chance of bunching up and popping out when I take the biner on or off my gear loop. |
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Camp Dyon gets a vote from me but not a strong preference, as Rick says any key nose or hood would be good. Though sometimes the hook has also prevented a dropped nut, so you can argue against them too. |
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Ovals, indeed. Good way to use those bootied bail biners. |
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Mark A wrote: Though sometimes the hook has also prevented a dropped nut, so you can argue against them too. I have seen much more likelihood that when a nut will get stuck in the hook it will prevent the gate from closing properly and increasing the chance of having other nuts fall out as the biner gets jostled around on the harness. |
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kevin deweese wrote: true enough |
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I don't like pure ovals or snag free biners! You can drop multiple nuts with a snag free gate but the nose catches them from slipping off. |
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One you don’t mind leaving behind |
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Shawn Adrian wrote: I really like these ovals: Seconded. Lightweight, good size, nice gate action. Only downside with ovals is it’s hard to know which way the gate will open. |
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Another vote for the DMM perfecto. |
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Hson P wrote: Gates always open in ;) |
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not sure I would really want to rack my nuts with a carabiner... but if I had to, I'd go with the biggest biner to rack myself with? |
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I use Petzl ange and I love it. My partner uses spirit bent gates and those are great too. |
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I bought about 10-12 Ange L and S biners, replaced all of my nut biners with them, love em! I tend towards the S, and split sets (as mentioned above), say wallnuts 1-6 on one, then 7-13 on the other. Seems the safest biner out there to keep the rest of them locked back in when you're unleashing the nut you just set... YMMV |
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Any notch free full sized oval biner for me. I personally have a bunch of Petzl ovals I use for top roping and for carrying nuts that have never let me down. The new BD ovals with a regular gate that are notchless are nice too. Fucking hate any D shaped biner for racking nuts. Its stupid to even argue about it. |
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Hson P wrote: Put a little piece of tape (or some other marking) on the non-hinge end of the gate. I use the DMM ovals. They are big and snag-free, but a bit on the heavy side. The BD wiregate ovals are nice and light, but have a notched nose. |
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My Cal At Last wrote: Looking for lightweight and snag free.Yep. You'd never want one that would snag on your nuts. |
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BD key lock ovals, they'll have you making your "O" face |