{"id":1427,"date":"2009-07-16T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allclimbing.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:43:48","slug":"black-diamond-on-autoblock-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/black-diamond-on-autoblock-misuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Diamond on Autoblock Misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Black Diamond&#8217;s quality control lab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackdiamondequipment.com\/en-us\/journal\/climb\/qclab\/qc-lab-autoblock-misuse\">tested autoblock belay device<\/a> common misuses and provided extensive details. Specifically they looked at:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; incorrectly using a standard belay device as an autoblock device<br \/>\n&#8211; using multiple biners as the \u00e2??brake bar\u00e2?\u009d in order to make taking in rope easier<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the multiple carabiner test, they found that using two biners increases the amount of force required to take rope in and increases the amount of holding force.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the post for the full results.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackDiamondUSA\/status\/2658885402\">@BlackDiamondUSA<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Diamond&#8217;s quality control lab tested autoblock belay device common misuses and provided extensive details. Specifically they looked at: &#8211; incorrectly using a standard belay device as an autoblock device &#8211; using multiple biners as the \u00e2??brake bar\u00e2?\u009d in order to make taking in rope easier Regarding the multiple carabiner test, they found that using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[71,107,340],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jRR-n1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allclimbing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}