Reslinging C4's with double loop?

[Lodestone]

Has anyone here had their BD or Metolius cams reslung with double loop (extendable) slings? Any particular reason why this shouldn't be done?

 

 

 

Chad

[JosephH]

Not a problem on Metolius Master Cams, but their other cams have a specific slinging I wouldn't recommend replacing. Note too, slinging is something that should be done without respect to whether the piece is active or passive, but rather with regard to the requirements of the overall rope path or system being established. I also seldom run into situations where when I want to sling a cam that a 'double loop' extension would suffice.

[mountainmandoug]

I do know that BD claims the reason that they don't put double slings on there cams is because it would weaken them relative to the sling set-up that they come with.

[Spence]

This has been discussed at length on many forums. Here is a link to info on BD's testing and development of the C4 sling configuration:

 

http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/en-us/journal/climb/all/qc-labreslinging-camalots-and-c3s

 

Similar results were found while DMM was developing their Dragon cam. You can draw your own conclusions.

 

-Ryan