New DMM pulley

[Peter]

Pinto Rig, with load bearing becket

[RobRainford]

looks similar in design shape to the Petzl Fixe, but a bit more curvy

[Mozza]

You do like your shiny new things dont you mate

[Rupe]

Yep, but the becket (bridge) on the fixe was never "officially" load bearing.

[RobRainford]

Yep, but the becket (bridge) on the fixe was never "officially" load bearing.

 

ahh i get it, the becket is the bit that crosses underneath the pulley wheel?

 

thats my new thing learnt today!

[Rupe]

Yes, and in normal use (as designed by petzl) there is no need for this to be officially load bearing but arbos use things differently.

 

There are a coupel of really neat ways of tieing VT's and distels etc using the becket!

[gingertreeninja]

found out at chrimbo that my mate is the rep for dmm over here. he just moved into a house which is heated by a big wood burner so was wondering if i could give him logs for shiny things. i think i will be able to help

[john dawson]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm shiny :drool:

[jarnii]

it also has a bearing in the pulley which isnt really for climbing as it has been used thats just a proper waste of money but can be used in a rigging application and thwe pinto with the bearing is a 45kn pulley and without a bearing so just standard climbing is a 33 or 35kn pulley, same as the hitch climber its a bit of a waste if your gonna used a bearing made pulley for it when the non bearing does the same thing. but for rigging off of its heaps better and as rupe has said it also has its benefits with the rated beckets which in the vt application when tieing off to the becket it is then rated as before on stuff like the fixe and the edelrid pulley it wasnt.

 

that should bore ya.

[atree]

Interesting.