From nfreeman@fas.harvard.edu Sun Mar 5 17:30:15 EDT 1995 Article: 29441 of rec.climbing Xref: dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU rec.climbing:29441 Path: dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!hookup!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.starnet.net!wupost!newspump.wustl.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!fas!nfreeman From: nfreeman@fas.harvard.edu (Noah Freeman) Newsgroups: rec.climbing Subject: Re: Stuck Locking Carabiners Date: 20 Feb 1995 06:31:11 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3i9cvf$8us@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <3i64l2$h4d@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <3i83jl$61n@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fas-2.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] or buy the petzl attache, which is designed so it cant bind up under load...the sheeve does not contact the nose... REUELJOE (reueljoe@aol.com) wrote: : A learned this from my instructor a few years ago : If you lock a locking biner and it gets stuck, try unlocking it with a : load on it...