[TowerTalk] Climbing belt Rings

[bob puharic]

Matt--K7BG wrote:

> 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.

Not only that, but if you've sent your Klein belt back to Klein for free checking
and updating, they PERMANENTLY lock one latch to the D ring so it CAN'T be
opened...very logical precaution.


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