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Technical Details

Raúl Macia Sanchez sent me two Fixe belay devices in 2023.

The Fixe is forged from aluminum alloy and then hard anodized. It has two slots. Each slot is 30 mm. long and 14 mm. wide. The slots have an hour-glass shape, but this is of no functional significance. Mine is 57 mm. long, 45 mm. wide, 23 mm. high, and weighs 59 g.

The front is printed with a rigging illustration and "FIXE."

Comments

The Fixe is one of the following closely-related slotted block belay devices:

Image Device Advanced Base Camp (ABC) Catch	Image Device Faders Variable Belay	Image Device Fixe

Each of these works much like any other slotted belay device. The control is good, but not as smooth as some of the belay tubes. Like the Wild Country Variable Controller, the two ends are asymmetrical, so these can be reversed for a slight change in feel. The asymmetry is less than on the Variable Controller, and I don't find the difference between the two orientations to be very great.

The cable keeper is stiff enough to not get caught by the rope.

The keeper lengths on my two Fixe belayers are different. The one not picthred is 12 mm. shorter than the one shown here. I feel that this is not significant and do not treat them as different variations.