Ascentree rope friction

[John Shutler]

my ascenders are used on an almost daily basis footlocking a doubled line, ive never noticed any glazing issue but there is certainly wear on the plastic handles

[David Humphries]

Why not just cut of the bottom part of the plastic handle, it wont effect the structural integity, and wont cause the glazing on your rope. Are you sure that it is this that is causing the glazing ? Unless you are going for world records in accent surely you will not be generating enough friction and heat to cause the glazing ?

 

We thought of that, but to be honest we're beyond it as an issue for us as we have chosen to look at using the ascentree differently or an alternative instead.

The thread is more about giving a heads up to those that have one and perhaps to raise it to petzl as a potential design issue.

 

 

Oh yeah, and I won't be challenging for ascent records anytime soon

[High Scale]

Petzl will probably shrug and say, be careful.

 

[David Humphries]

Petzl will probably shrug and say, be careful.

 

 

 

Will be interesting to see what their point of view might be.

 

Have you known anyone to put q's to petzl regarding design before?

 

 

 

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[High Scale]

Nope, but they come across as sensible people with open minds, I'm sure they would love the feedback, safety being their ultimate interest.