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Can an overhand loop be used to shorten nylon webbing as a personal anchor?

The hodgepodge of confusing information just keeps growing online. DMM drop tests of both Dyneema and nylon runners used this way showed how a knot of any kind weakened so a fall factor of 1 would ...
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What is the strength of an ATC belay device when used in a guide mode/multi-pitch setup?

here ya go the crew at Hownot2 did a bunch of tests on belay devices in a variety of configurations including the actual cables and pulling the eye to destruction basically someone else pulls stuff ...
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