Climbers Soon To Trust Life To Magnets

Any word on the weight verses more traditional biners?

SO COOl!

Cool, but I am not sure this will see wide acceptance in the climbing community – unless its significantly cheaper and lighter (both of which I doubt) than a screwgate, I don’t see why anyone would prefer to trust their life in a magnetic mechanism over the easily understood and perfectly safe Newtonian mechanics of screwgates.

The magnets simply pull the lock closed. The climber does not ‘trust their life’ to the magnets.

I think it is clear that anyone that understand and uses locking ‘biners on a regular basis would love to replace their screwlock or ball-lock ‘biners with these.

Magnets sometimes loses their magnetism when knocked hard or dropped. Something to think about.

What if the biner is jammed between two points? it could pinch both sides leaving it unlocked.
As with twist gates (not screw) it lock automatically, i don’t want that because ill have to use the little buttons every time i open it even if its on my harness.
it looks a bit chunky.
Is likely to be far too expensive and is in no way a revelation like BD describes it as.

The magnets are gonna get clogged with little pieces of metal ore containing rock fragments any time they spend time near the dirt. But otherwise, I like.

“I think it is clear that anyone that understand and uses locking ‘biners on a regular basis would love to replace their screwlock or ball-lock ‘biners with these.”

Hell no!!!! I like my rigging, locked down and immovable. I’m sure these are bomber but I want to play with them to destruction before I use them anywhere.

I believe they weren’t the first.
Skylotec has one available since March 2011.

In no way is anyone “trusting their life to magnets”, this is just an alternate way to ensure the gate doesn’t open on it’s own, which is very rare to even happen in the first place.