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Recent Updates

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• March 23, 2008 - MAJOR UPDATE! MANY ADDITIONS!
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  • Added the following devices and updated the indicated type summary pages:
    • Clog, Version F (Handleless Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • respectively. I also made considerable changes to the existing Allp descriptions.
    • CMI Bottle Opener 8 (Toy Eights)
    • CMI Shorti II (Handleless Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • CMI Small UltrAscender, Version C (Handled Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • Kong-Bonaiti, Version A (Handled Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • Jumar, Version B (Handled Eccentric Cam Ascenders) (I renamed the old versions B, C, and D as C, D, and E, respectively, and revised the Jumar E page)
    • Hopf, Version B (Miscellaneous Descenders). I updated the Ten Most Wanted List accordingly.
    • MSR Belay Link, Version B (Sticht Plate Belayers)
    • Storrick Double Allp, Version B (Poly-Bollards)
    • Troll Allp, Versions A & D (Poly-Bollards) In the process, I renamed the old versions A, B, and C as B, C, and E,
  • Added pages for the following devices and updated the indicated type summary pages:
    • Ascender Knots
      • Bellunese
      • Buttonhole
      • Distel
      • Icicle
      • Israeli French Prusik
      • Knut
      • Martin
      • OPC
      • Penberthy
      • Schwab
      • Schwabich
      • Simple Buttonhole
      • Taut-line Hitch
      • TK
      • VT
    • Zero-G G-Spot (Belay Tubes and shared weight chart on Tubers)
    • DMM V-Twin (Belay Tubes and shared weight chart on Tubers)
    • CMI (Eccentric Cam Foot Ascenders)
    • TSA (Eccentric Cam Foot Ascenders)
    • Advanced Base Camp (Handleless Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • Greenwald (Handleless Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
    • Hall (Hauling Pulleys)
    • University of Virginia Rappelling Log (Horizontal Spools and the shared weight chart on Brake Tubes and Vertical Spools)
    • Gilchrest (J-frame Racks and the shared weight chart on O-frame & U-frame Racks)
    • Fixe Tapir (Lever Box Belay Devices)
    • USHBA Basic 10.03 (Miscellaneous Ascenders)
    • SBCI Belay Spool (Miscellaneous Belay Devices)
    • Miscellaneous Descenders
      • ISIS
      • New Alp Ring
      • SFD 8
      • Some of My Early Designs
    • Most Miscellaneous
      • Petzl Freino
      • MSR Auto Belayer
      • Rack Jack
    • Cassin Twin, Version B (Plate Belayers)
    • Rope Grabs
      • Miller (the previous Miller rope grab is now on the Miller 8174 page)
      • Miller 8174, Versions B and C
      • Petzl ASAP
      • Unknown
    • Salewa Sticht 11 (Sticht Plate Belayers)
    • Semi-mechanical Ascenders
      • Bachmann Knot with Turns
      • Bachmann Ring Knot
      • Carabiner Knot (a.k.a. Bachmann 1947)
    • Type 1 Lever Cam Ascenders
      • Russian Speleo Club "Barrier"
      • Reflex
      • Infernal Machine
    • Elk River (Vertical Spools)
  • Added the following figure eights
    • Updated the Figure Eights and Figure Eights With Ears pages accordingly.
    • Updated the height vs. width charts on the Figure Eight Data 1 and Figure Eight /w Ears Data 1 pages.
    • Also updated the Figure Eight Data 2, Figure Eight Data 3, Figure Eight Data 4, Figure Eight Data 5, Figure Eight /w Ears Data 3, and Figure Eight /w Ears Data 4 pages.
    • Updated the shared weight chart on the Figure Eights, Figure Eights with Ears, and Complex Figure Eights pages accordingly.
    • Cassin, Version E
    • CMI Standard, Version E (I interchanged the names of Versions C and D, and moved the CMI Ultra 8 to its own page)
    • Fusion
    • Kirnoz
    • Kong Classic
    • Mammut, Version E (I interchanged the names of Versions C and D)
    • Russ Anderson, Version B (I renamed the old versions B, C, and D as C, D, and E, respectively)
    • Singing Rock
    • Viking, Version B
    • SSP, Version D
    • Rescue Q
  • Updated the following hauling pulley pages. Most of these updates were to add source and dimension information.
    • CMI Micro Haulers
    • CMI Uplift
    • Kong Block Roll
    • Petzl Traxions
    • Rock Exotica Wallhauler
    • RSI Rescue Hauling Pulley
    • SRT Rescuemates
    • Ural-Alp / USHBA
    • Ural-Alp Big Hauler
    • Ural-Alp Double-Hauler
  • Updated the Prusik Knot page.
  • Updated my Rappel Safeties Internet Post page.
  • Updated cross-references in the Lucky Face and Trango Penta descriptions.
  • Updated all of the Keychain Eights descriptions.
  • Updated the Blake's Hitch page.
  • Updated the Quechua 8 page.
  • Updated the Kong Big "8s" page.
  • Updated the Bobbins: General Comments page.
  • Updated the Miller 8174 Versions A description.
  • Updated and renamed the Tractel Stopfor S (formerly Tractel-Stop) page and updated the Rope Grabs page accordingly
  • Updated the Ural Alp page
  • Updated the Fisher Eights page.
  • Updated the Petzl Croll page.
  • Updated the Kong-Bonaiti Modular Ascender page.
  • Updated the Kong-Bonaiti Modular Ascender handles page.
  • Updated the Black Diamond, Edelrid Lotse, Mad Rock Paradox, Omega Pacific SBGs, Salewa Tubus, Simond Cubik, Singing Rock, Trango Jaws, Wild Country VC Pro, and Zero-G G-Wedge pages with minor editorial corrections.
  • Updated the Russian Type 1 Lever Cam Ascenders page and updated the Type 1 Lever Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
  • Updated links on the various Collection at a Glance pages.
  • Updated my "no hate mail" plea on the Petzl Pantin page.
  • Added photographs to the following pages (no text changes):
    • AML Descender
    • Grivel A.B.A.
    • Krok Drop
    • PMI Progressors
    • Single Rope Technique Stop Bobbins
    • Stubai Klettersteigbremse
    • Tractel Stopfor D
    • Zero-G Classic 8
    • Zero-G ZBD Sprung Belay Plate
  • Updated the Stupid Icons page.
  • Updated the Sources List.
  • Updated the Ten Most Wanted List.
  • Updated the Vertical Home page.
  • Minor editorial corrections.
• February 24, 2008
  • Added another Motorized Ascending Device
  • I removed all of the patent .pdfs from my site and replaced them with links to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site. Not only does ths provide access to the originals as well as convenient access to other patents referred to in the originals, but it also released about 20% of my web site's disk allocation for expansion.
  • Removed the site access statistics from the Vertical Home page. My ISP changed the way that they report statistics so I can no longer keep this updated as before.
  • Updated the Sources List.
  • Updated the Vertical Home page.
  • Updated the Ten Most Wanted List.
  • Minor editorial corrections.
• February 10, 2008
  • Revised the definitions of Belay Tubes and Tubers on the Belay Devices index page.
  • Updated the Vertical Home page.
  • Moved the 2007 updates to their own page.

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Coming Soon....

I have evaluated the following devices, and I will be writing pages for them shortly:

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Under consideration...

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Long-term Plans

As you can see, this site is perpetually under construction. I started this in mid-August, 1999, and instead of waiting until the site was "perfect," I wanted to get something on line soon. Even at this time, years later, I still have more to add.This is a noncommercial site (I'm a user, I don't sell equipment), I have to fit working on this into my spare time. My general plans are to continue developing the site in the following order:

1. The highest priority is to review new, currently available equipment that is donated to my collection by the manufacturer or their distributors and dealers. I don't promise to like everything, but I will try give an honest assessment as soon as practicable.
2. I try to create pages for all of the equipment that I currently own. This task is ongoing as I acquire and test new devices. For now, some of the descriptions are informal and were written quickly as I created the pages. In general, these descriptions accurately portray some of my opinions, but they tend to be rather incomplete. I want to expand on these wherever I can, but each time I acquiring something new, I start falling behind again.
3. Occassionally I need to go back and reshoot some of the photographs. In particular, some of the existing photos are blurred. I flag the worst ones with the "blurry eyes" icon until I get a chance to fix these. I try not to let this happen too often.
   
4. Some of the descriptions of the bobbins and eccentric cam ascenders came from articles that I published in The Nylon Highway a number of years ago. These were in the "Technical Description/Comment" format. I plan to eventually describe (almost) everything in this format.
5. I would like to add a manufacturers page that also lists the equipment that I have from each one.
6. I would like to add a few pages on equipment usage once everything else is in place.
7. There are always spelling and grammatical errors to be corrected! I correct these as I find them, and occassionaly make a concerted effort to systematically review each description - usually during the NSS Conventions.

©2008, Gary D. Storrick