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kdelap wrote: The real reason to not cover up anything on your harness is because you can't inspect it.

Seconding this. I can think of one fatality off the top of my head from wear/damage obscured by tape.

i tape my shit, if i could afford a new harness at anypoint i wouldn't. the luck of others i guess.

i'm with pig, i wrap/rewrap every so often and inspect before the retape. since i've stopped guiding and setting my stuff lasts longer but i still tape up.

anticlmber wrote:i tape my shit, if i could afford a new harness at anypoint i wouldn't. the luck of others i guess.

i'm with pig, i wrap/rewrap every so often and inspect before the retape. since i've stopped guiding and setting my stuff lasts longer but i still tape up.

see, I knew we could find common ground. If your harness is fine, seems to me the taping is genius. my question is still unanswered thugh. does anyone know if the adhesive is bad for the nylon?

duct tape is definately corrosive kip, it eats through wood, paint, skin, and other stuff so i'd be wary. other tape....possibly. i wrap non-stick down and then go around that sticky down. just pee on any left over sticky materiel.

Future headline: Genius dies from harness failure.

are harnesses really that costly? I mean just how shredded up is your tie in point getting after a year?

ReachHigh wrote:are harnesses really that costly? I mean just how shredded up is your tie in point getting after a year?

Depends on what you do. People who do a lot of ascending, etc. get the lower tie-in point shredded pretty quicky.


Back to the original subject, isn't there a harness out there with a plastic cover/reinforcement/protector for the lower tie-in loop? You know, sort-of like gear loops on some harnesses, Like metholius safe-tech, where the webbing runs through inside the plastic tube? Seems like it would be easy to make out os some sort of transparent plastic, and it would avoid the issue of adhesive and not being able to inspect the underlying webbing...

ReachHigh wrote:are harnesses really that costly?

can i borrow 80bucks??

How about you take a few inches of webbing, wrap that, then put tape on top of it. hen, even it it is slightly corrosive, you are affectingthat layer of webbing, and not the harness itself.

I was going to suggest that you secure it witha few stitches but figured you were too lazy to do that - but that would eliminate the tape altogether.

i was thinking the samw thing.
staples???