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Pete found the same thing with most of the kits he inspected at the USFS climbing instructor's workshop he attended with me after the WCGTG. His suggested method of cleaning them was to put them in a pot of water and heat them on the stovetop...not boil them hard, but leave there to simmer a...

Icicle hitch. I like it because I never need to set it for it to grab, totally trustworthy in that regard, but it breaks and advances easily after a good loading or rappel. It doesn't self tend all that well, but it does advance easily. Self tending is overated for me personally...When I...

That may well be it, Greg. I don't really have a real good explaination. Besides that, perhaps the side plates are a little closer together than the mico pulley I was using before, and that means the hitch is advanced with a more uniformly applied push. See my post above, Nick. Do you find...

Jerry are you talking about the ISC quadlock or the springlock version? If the quad, its a goody. That's the biner in my hitch pic in Greg's carabiner thread. On the other hand, although the springlock is hardish to open on purpose, it's scary easy to open accidentally, just by rubbing the...

Just fell off the turnip truck, I did!

That's totally an issue, to the point of excluding use of the Hitchclimber, if you're using a knot to terminate your climb line. With an eye splice, it doesn't bump the hitch, so far as I can try to make it do so anyway. You wouldn't believe how smooth that setup advances the hitch...I'd have...

Here's my current setup, Greg. It changes with some frequency as I attempt to keep abreast of the wide variety people are using. That's more from the perspective of an instructor than as a working climber. I haven't been using the Hitchclimber very long...before that I had both biner's...