Dyneema and Nylon Drop Test Video

[MJaso]

Watched this today and thought I'd pass it along. A good video testing dyneema and nylon slings can be found on the DMM website.

 

http://www.dmmclimbing.com/video.asp?id=5

[Jens]

I have switched back to the thicker nylon or nylon/dyneema hybrid slings after using the uber skinny dyneema (mammut etc.) slings for about five years. The skinny ones wear out super fast and have had a lot of reports of breaking.

If you hold a wad of dyneema slings and compare the weight to a wad of nylon sewn slings, the weight is pretty close to the same- almost the same as an empty gu wrapper. If you ice climb or alpine climb, the dry times are about the same. If you rock climb harder routes, you leave these fixed for months and want them tough (you want the thicker nylon ones).

[dennyt]

After watching that video a while ago, I switched from a spectra/nylon sling with a knot in it, to the Mammut belay sling. It's fat nylon, with two full-strength clipping points, and it's way less bulky than a PAS. It's also cheap, and 2nd ascent has them.

 

http://www.backcountry.com/mammut-belay-sling-polyamid-sewn-runner-19mm

(polyamide = nylon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon)