Marking your Climbing Biners
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What's the best way to mark your climbing gear so you don't confuse it with your partners? |
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Pink nail polish |
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I use nail polish (two colours to make it more distinct). |
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+1 for the Trango tags, they don't last forever but they also don't turn to goo when they die. Electrical tape sucks. |
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I agree that electrical tape can come off...unless you really stretch it, on a clean surface. This has worked for many years. Two colors might be a hassle but with so many of us these days, your chance of correctly sorting out gear at the end of a multi-pitch goes up. Please don't use my colors! |
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I use green sparkling nail polish. |
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I've used nail polish in the past, with good results. I found a roll of bright pink duct tape a while back that's been working well for a while. |
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+1 nail polish |
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Roy Suggett wrote: I agree that electrical tape can come off...unless you really stretch it, on a clean surface. This has worked for many years. Two colors might be a hassle but with so many of us these days, your chance of correctly sorting out gear at the end of a multi-pitch goes up. Please don't use my colors! +1 I think if someone is just starting from scratch right now, the Trango tags may be better than electric tape, but I have the two electric tape colors that I have been using for all these years in my closet, so it is easier to just re-apply them. The tape seems to work well enough for me.And yes, two colors! it seems that one-color choice of RED is the default option of 90% of climbers... Back when I first labeled my gear, I was climbing with two people who were blue/white and green/yellow (in addition to several reds, as mentioned above). So I went with purple/orange. I have only ran into one other person with that color scheme choice in ~12 years... |
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Nail polish. Last for many years, applied in the correct, protected places. |
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Paint pen from the hobby shop or auto shop. Hobby shop tends to be cheaper...but it's made to stick to metal. I find it lasts longer than nail polish |
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Had a friend use colored heat shrink on gates one time, lasted a while. |
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Paint designed for BBQs. Thick, quite cheap, designed for metal, and you get more volume than nail polish. |
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Paint pen. Choose yer color. |
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I use milk. It dries a nice white color. 1% or 2% works well |
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I mark all my gear with microfractures. |
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I have a patterned electrical tape that is fairly distinct. I place it where it is harder to scrape off accidentally. |
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Marking every biner just seems excessive. I tend to mark gear like my cams, just to avoid confusion, but I don't really care if my buddy ends up with one of my Camp Nanos at the end of the day or I with one of hers. It all comes out in the wash. Then again, I'm not very promiscuous in my climbing behavior and also tend to just climb on one person's rack rather than throwing everything in a pile and mixing it up. |
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I use https://www.toughtags.co.uk/ |
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I am another finger nail polish user. For biners I mark them on the spine where the UIAA stuff is. For cams, I make anywhere that doesn't see abrasion. For nuts I push the wires through a bit and mark the place under the wire. I have never had to retouch a single piece of gear since the paint is in a protected location. |
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There once was a Company that sold colored, "clear" epoxy (not to be confused with epoxy paint). 3, or so, different colors. This stuff stayed on FOREVER. I Forget the name of the co. or the stuff, I think I bought it from one of the smaller climbing gear shops. |