Re: Grigri 2 vs. Trango Cinch
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 12:36 pm
Are you using the clickup upside down? The climber side should be up. Are you loading the rope right? The clickup will not autoblock is the climber side is not toward the climber; in that case it is just an atc. Is the clickup somehow positioned on your belay loop so it is naturally facing one side up or down? Climber points up and hand side points down. This is also how it should be used. Are you belaying such that you are pulling and/or pushing the rope with exaggerated motion sideways (in the transverse plane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittal_plane) instead of up and down (in the sagittal plane)?monty4355 wrote:I never have any trouble with an ATC spinning the biner. I think it is the large size of the click up that does it. I have had the auto block function not work on three different occasions while lead belaying. I still like the click up a lot. Enough to buy the very gimiky looking alpine up. As I said before as long as you have a special biner with the clip it does not spin.
I keep my break hand under the device when using the atc or the clickup. My palm is down. Neither my atc or my clickup is dancing around on my biner as I am paying slack or taking in. My motions are approximated aligned with my sagittal plane. I do this because it is just plain common sense . . .
Do you wonder why this is happening to you; what have you done to correct it? If the anti-crossloading biner corrects your problem why are you using the device without one??????? Posting that a device has failed to operate as advertised and continuing to use it constitutes a disrespect for the lives of others.
I am interested in what is happening to you because I use the device. While the 5 people I know who have been using the clickup for about a year now have not told me of this issue, I am interested in your issue. I am just another human being. Perhaps I will look at your issue and decide to switch devices.
