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Re: [skinner] The Most Bitchin Fall:
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holdplease2
Mar 24, 2007, 4:06 PM
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Hey Skinner -
Thank you for the PM head's up on your question.
The rivit hanger broke when the wire pulled through the swage. I had been standing on the piece for a minute or so, drinking water and looking for more rivit hangers on the rack. It creaked, I looked at it, then it blew.
The rivit hanger was made by Verm and was sold at the Yosemite Mountain Shop. It had not been used before. It was one of the "cinching" rivit hangers, the swage that blew was the one that the aider biner clips into, leaving the rivit hanger on the rivit. The next party up measured the fall with their tag line and retrieved the hanger and passed it to a friend of mine who still has it.
Take home lessons: Especially when you are going to be trusting your life to gear made in someone's garage, test it on the ground. And use the beefiest stuff you can whenever you have the opportunity.
-Kate.
(This post was edited by holdplease2 on Mar 24, 2007, 4:13 PM)
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