New lightweight wiregate biner from Metolius, 20g

[Alpinfox]

Scheduled to be available in June.

 

"lightest full-functioning biner in the world"

 

 

* Weight: 0.7 ounces (20 grams)

* Type: straight

* Gate closed strength: 22 kN

* Gate open strength: 8 kN

* Minor axis strength: to be determined

Edited May 12, 2009 by Alpinfox

[catbirdseat]

Is it tiny like a Camp Nano?

[kevino]

they call it 'mini' so one could imagine..which is too bad

[layton]

saw it at the show, way small than the camp. Sweet for your camera, water bottle, shoes etc to use in a pinch....or for climbing with Wayne

[Jens]

We were going to do some lead fall testing on various keychain biners at the gym last week (above good draws).

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How much smaller is this Metolius biner than the camp nano? I like the camp biners, but the springs have roughly a two year life and then some of them no longer close all the way.

[genepires]

someday all of our biners will be like paperclips.

[dberdinka]

Black Diamond makes a really nice keychain carabiner called The Micron. It's metal with a stiff wire gate and the large is about the same size as the latest micro biners. $2.60 canadian at MEC.

 

I'd love to see half-a-dozen of these independantly pull tested.

[kevino]

I've seen one of them drop tested. We had to gather the three parts to piece together our conclusion.

[John Frieh]

someday all of our biners will be like paperclips.

 

The future is plastic