Quickie killer?

There's many other sheaves that'll fit on the quickie. For example that plastic one petzl makes and I think a lot of the cmi micro pulleys dotoo.
 
One of the greatest things about the quickie from my point of view is how easy they are to lose! Lol.
My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.

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My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.
Is the thimble a tight fit on the flare of the quickie? Is that how it keeps it from rotating? I like that a lot
 
I feel like they should just recall the instructions. Nothing wrong with the ultralink as a perfectly good tool for easy opening applications. if they were to just send a new set of instructions minus the anchoring pictures it would be fine. Like where a single lock carabiner is fine... just reset the expectation of use instead of pulling all the way out.

Anyway, I'll trade someone a couple quickies for one. DM me.
 
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Is the thimble a tight fit on the flare of the quickie? Is that how it keeps it from rotating? I like that a lot
Yes. It takes a bit of prying to get the thimble over the flared end of the shackle when installing it but these thimbles have slits. Once on, the thimble can slide from one eye to the other but won't come off unless you force it. another little bonus, these thimbles fit perfectly in the lower Ds of the treemotion harness...the evo anyways. This is where I store it. Does not seem to interfere with my lanyard when using the lower Ds for that either. I would attach my lanyard hardware above the thimble. Ignore the carabiner below it. I just stashed an extra there temporarily. Attach8419_20190714_145133.jpg


Edit: This is for the Notch Quickie. I do not have a milled singing tree one so can't speak to the thimble/shackle interface on that. I would imagine its similar though.
 
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Yes. It takes a bit of prying to get the thimble over the flared end of the shackle when installing it but these thimbles have slits. Once on, the thimble can slide from one eye to the other but won't come off unless you force it. another little bonus, these thimbles fit perfectly in the lower Ds of the treemotion harness...the evo anyways. This is where I store it. Does not seem to interfere with my lanyard when using the lower Ds for that either. I would attach my lanyard hardware above the thimble. Ignore the carabiner below it. I just stashed an extra there temporarily.

Brilliant, I'm gonna try that, thank you
 
Brilliant, I'm gonna try that, thank you
Awesome. I can proudly say this is a Phil Prohaska original hack. I made an edit above about this working with the notch quickie. I never tried it with the milled singing tree one but I would imagine they are similar enough it will likely work. Don't have one so can't say for sure though. Please share your thoughts once you give it a run.
 
I would like to give a shout out to @Njdelaney for posting his initial review of the UltraLink for us. His one handed opening scared me enough to experiment further. I don't know how much my sending ISC the videos we made helped in causing this recall, but I'm sure it didn't hurt either. We may have saved a life.
For those of you that seem a bit pissy you didn't get one... I just don't feel bad for some reason. They will no doubt create a fix and you will be able to get one then. One that won't kill you.
 
My little hack to this is to slip a plastic rope thimble over the quickie. Its hi vis, makes the quickie easier to hold when installing, won't slip off the shackle portion, and I can snug the eye on the alpine in the thimble which prevents the shackle from being able to reorient inside the alpine if some slack is introduced from a distance.

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This is pretty much the way I was "going" to use mine, nice to have centering. Curious to see how they improve the design, definitely some room for that.
 

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