dave spencer

Any chance you could scan or even take a picture of the instructions for me. I am very curious to see them. Again, the carabiner is not required, it is just there as an option. Say you were dropping a piece a fair bit and while it fell, the line goes slack for a second and the portawrap drops down. There is the potential there to lose a wrap, this is when you could make things safer by capturing the rope with a biner or two. For 90% of use, you should not need to use one. unless you like to be extra-extra safe The "horns" are bent over to make it much less likely than other similar devices to lose a wrap, even without the biners.

just pm me with your email for a full res version. I have already sent it out to three other people.

Hello all, I was just surfing around and found this site. I am one of the co-designers of the fos-8. ISC was licensing the design from us. Unfortunately dealing with them has been frustrating at best. Part of the original licensing deal was that they used our instruction sheet. Which was laminated and folded up to be stored inside the tube on the device itself. We have been very disappointed to learn that they never printed them. We felt that they were very important to include. I will attach one of our instruction sheets to this post. Feel free to pass them around to anyone else you know who has one of these devices. Unfortunately I had to shrink the files slightly to upload them on this site. If you want a higher res version, just email me and I will send it too you. It is also important to know that the design does not require you to use a carabiner to capture the rope. We just added the option for extra security. If there are any other questions about the design, I'll check back here and am only too happy to answer. Dave Spencer Vertical Pro