Which pinto for pulley saver please?

[jrose]

Hi all,

 

I quite fancy a pulley saver as my old cambium saver failed its LOLER the other day.

 

I'm going to try to make my own, so I need to buy a Pinto pulley (unless there's a better option?). My question is, the new version of the official Pulley Saver has a normal Pinto - am I better off buying this, or the rigging one? How easy is it to get something to fit through a normal Pinto, but still retrieve?

 

Also, if the pulley is being threaded into the prussik (as opposed to spliced/tied direct to pulley), do I still need the spacer?

 

Thanks a lot

 

Joe

[DrewB]

You need the spacer. I'd get the rig pinto purely because once you start srt climbing you can use it as a lightweight rigging pulley

[Mark_Skyland]

I would recommend the rig.

Some spliced/ sewn eyes will get jammed up in the standard pinto,we know from trying them out.

[silky fox]

Pinto rig

[MWArb]

I have the older pulley saver and there's something about the size and solidness of the pinto rig that fills me with confidence... Haha, looks like I'm following you around the forum agreeing with you this morning Paul

 

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[silky fox]

Nothing wrong with that...I like positivity!

[Jake Andrews]

I have the regular (poor mans) pinto. Attached too a Prussik which is attached to a teufelberger ringsaver. You get a small retrievable ball with the ring saver and it fits in the pinto lovely. Works lovely with my SJ.

 

Jake:thumbup1:

[marcus_arb]

Go for the rig. I've had both versions of the pulley saver and liked the old one better, even with the crap retrieval clip ( although I did cut it off and replace it with a ART trapeze)