smallest/lightest locking biners?
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I decided to replace all of my lockers, what are the lightest ones on the market? Is it Metolius Bravo? |
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I suggest you go to weighmyrack. You can sort their carabiner list and come up with 9 other biners as light, or lighter than the Bravo. All but one are keylock, which would be important to me. |
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I would keep one that has a round bar for belaying. It is little more weight but you gain in efficiency. |
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one warning about small biners ... if you intend to tie 10mm+ ropes to then its a biatch to clove |
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The DMM Phantom lockers are great and one of the lightest, but they are kind of small for belaying or clove hitches. The DMM Shadow and BD Vaporlock are a way better all-around size. |
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Check this thing out. Super slick design, good hand feel, and the screw gate can rotate through the eye of a grigri 2. |
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The Wild Country Ions are super light and work well for most knots and hitches. For anything where I need more space I use a Petzl Attache 3D. |
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CAMP Photon lockers are a mainstay of my rack. At least when I bought them they were advertised as the lightest locking 'biners available. Bonus feature - the keylock bulge on the nose of the biner is very tiny and it acts as a great marlinspike to undo knots, I have untied countless tough knots using it. |
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Abram Herman wrote:The Wild Country Ions are super light and work well for most knots and hitches. For anything where I need more space I use a Petzl Attache 3D.The Ion is a great caribiner. It's worth mentioning the Ion is the locking version of the Nitro/Helium. |
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I carry a few of the WC Ion. Although I do notice that it is smaller than my partners larger BD lockers, the Ion's diminutive size has not been a problem. The Ion, like all the other WC biners that I have seen, are very well made. |
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+1 for the Attache 3D. Petzl got it right. I have a bunch of these. |
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i have a bunch of the trango flyweight lockers. not sure if they still make them, but i have really liked them. they are really small, so they can often fit in a small bolt/piton hole when it has some webbing threaded through the hole. |
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62 grams |
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Dane wrote:62 grams Edelrid HMS Strike Slider Automatic Locking Carabiner Superfly LTW locker is 41g. So not the lightest locker. I switched from the Superfly recently to the Strike. I really like the locking mechanism of the Edelrid a LOT better.superfly is pretty damned close (according to weigh my rack). |
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Be very careful with i-beam biners for belaying/rapping |
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I was quoting published weights off he internet web sites. On my scale Super fly is 38g. Strike 62g |