[TowerTalk] Climbing belt Rings

[Matt--K7BG]

At 12:05 AM 2-11-99 -0500, w2xx@cloud9.net wrote:
>> My lanyards have a single spring locked latch on each end. Am I to
>> understand that newer lanyards have 2 latches on each end for a total of 4
>> latches per lanyard? 
>
>Steve wrote back and said yes, but I believe he misunderstood the
>question.  There are *not* four latches (two on each end) but
>rather two spring released latches on each catch )snap-hook) at
>the ends of the lanyard.

Just went and looked at my lanyards. By golly they do have two spring
mechanisms at each end making it impossible to open the front of the hook
without first depressing the back latch and then pushing on the front
latch. Looks like I'm up to current state of the art. A picture paints a
thousand words sure holds true with this stuff.

73, Matt--K7BG


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