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    New device from ISC

    I think that the field testers weren't able to get good wear data because they kept replacing devices with new iterations during the testing. May only have had 2-3 months on each iteration. Just my theory after seeing the various prototypes they had. Still all seems like the kind of thing you...
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    New device from ISC

    Mine started to slip Monday at the end lf the day while I was 60 ft up a white pine and I suddenly felt the $400-whatever across 5 months of climbing was not good value
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    New device from ISC

    That's cool of Wesspur, the most outreach I've seen from ISC is a response to a comment on isntagram from their official page. I have yet to see anything on their website about the different pricing, seemed to be spur of the moment in response to all of the hate comments.
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    New device from ISC

    ISC has said they will offer discounted pricing to those who purchased a "Reflex V1". I find this incredibly disrespectful and shows that they value the dollar over people's safety. They did the same thing with their triple action snaps that would have one of the gates catch open randomly. Just...
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    Rigging Point Failure

    Thank you for sharing Steve, I have attended some of your talks before and I have great respect for everything you've taught me and brought to the industry. This was a super detailed incident report and is something I'll be showing the crews at our shop. I may have made the same decisions with a...
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    Kalimba rope

    Saw someone else say that they heard back from courant and are offering either a komora or kanopa or you can wait until they develop a new splice and get a new kalimba.
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    Cable hardware question

    We replaced all of the wedge grips we had ever done, we only purchased them once and started to experience the failures pretty quickly. I doubt that they were installed incorrectly but I wasn't the one installing them. The people who were installing them are smart, experienced cablers but also...
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    Cable hardware question

    We bought them and installed them within a year of getting them, 2 years ago. I'm not sure if they were all the same batch, but there are lots of similar testimonies in the reviews online so it seems to have been many batches. We tried to reach out to the company but they never got back to us...
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    Cable hardware question

    Beware the Wedge Grips. If you start actually reading the reviews online you will find that there is a significant number of them that gets manufactured poorly and fail in lighter wind loads. The inside part will just shear. My company switched to them because they are much easier and we ended...
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    New device from ISC

    I also found the Ultra O fits nicely compared to all of my other carabiners.
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    New device from ISC

    3 of us at my company recieved the Reflex yesterday. All of us are impressed by it and will most likely be using it as our go to for most work. I had 2 climbs yesterday, SRT pruning a big bur oak, and a crab MRS with a redirect on a pinto to try out since I got that with the shipment too...
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    New device from ISC

    I saw a video of a Spanish, average build, climber on Xstatic where the reflex would not grab whatsoever unless manually opening the links. He said that he had it happen once before when he was working in Germany and that he thought it was due to how cold it was that day but now that its...
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    New device from ISC

    Interested in hearing more about KM3 and Tachyon Ash with the Reflex if anyone has tried those.
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    New device from ISC

    Did you end up trying out those other ropes where the older device failed to grab with the new device?
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    Tree man.

    I'm sorry to hear that you're in pain and that you lost a friend. I lost a friend and coworker last year and it puts you in a very strange place. I think you are posting these things as a very misguided call for help and I think that talking to the people in your life who care about you would be...
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