Recall notice Trango Vergo Belay Device

[monkeylove]

Probably more rock and wall use but just incase. Immediately remove from service if you have one and contact the manufacturer. Trango.com, "Product Alerts".

 

[Dave Rohach]

Say What? Are you Serious? I use mine all the time, what's wrong with it?

 

[monkeylove]

Check their website Dave. Apparently on some the handle comes loose and there is a potential of falling.

 

[moss]

I still have my recalled first gen Grigri II, I modified it quite a bit, no way was I turning it in ;-) Still works fine. Was recalled for a similar fail, handle would come off, device would fail to grab.

 

[moss]

The deal with a handle fail is that if your hand is on the tail in belay position, as it should be whenever you descend on or let rope out through a Cinch, Vergo or Grigri then you can hold yourself long enough to take "defensive measures", at least that's what I kept telling myself about my potentially defective Grigri II when I used to climb on it. It's easy to verify, grab the tail of the rope firmly, open the lever all the way, you don't go anywhere ;-)

 

[moss]

Recall is only for batch numbers 16159 and 16195

https://www.climbing.com/news/trango-vergo-recall-notice/

"Trango has recently discovered that the handles on some Vergo belay devices may have loosened to allow lateral wobble or movement of the handle. If excessive downward force is exerted on a handle subject to lateral movement, the handle may over-rotate onto the front plate, preventing the front plate from moving freely, and impairing the device’s assisted braking capacity. If the handle over rotates as described above, the assisted braking function is impaired or disabled, and the risk of uncontrolled descent increases significantly."

Beyond the fact that the recall is for two specific batch numbers, the handle has to have already developed lateral wobble for the over-rotation problem to occur.
-AJ