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I acquired my Edelrid Hannibal from Backcountry Gear in 2017.
The Edelrid Hannibal is forged from aluminum alloy and then soft anodized. Mine is 131 mm. tall, 74 mm. wide, and 13 mm. thick. The rope hole is 46 mm. high and 50 mm. wide. The top center thickness is 11 mm. The shaft length and width are 31 mm. and 31 mm., respectively. The eye measures 15 mm. by 15 mm. and has a black o-ring seated in an internal groove. The top and bottom ears are 14 and 6.5 mm. long, respectively. My Edelrid Hannibal weighs 103 g.
One side is forged with "EDELRID," "HANNIBAL," and a rigging icon. The other side is forged with "EDELRID," "Ø 7,8-12,0," "EN 15151-2," and a book-with-an-"i" icon.
The Edelrid Hannibal falls into my miscellaneous figure eights with ears category. The ears allow for some alternate rigging configurations (like those described for the Petzl Pirana), and can also be used to facilitate tie-offs. Unlike the ears on many eights, these don't seem to get in the way, and they don't make the eight absurdly large.
The eye is small, and many standard carabiners will not fit. Forget about trying to get two to fit. Plan on dedicating a carabiner if you want to use this eight; otherwise, expect a lot of hassle. I wish folks would give up on the o-ring eye idea.
The slot is nonfunctional, being far too small for belaying.
As for the markings on the Mago, I actually - and I'm not kidding - used a microscope to see the arrow under the caution sign and to see what the two rigging illustrations showed.
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I acquired my Edelrid Mago from CanyonZone.com - Gertjan van Pelt in 2020.
The Edelrid Mago 8 is forged from aluminum alloy and then soft anodized. Mine is 106 mm. tall, 70 mm. wide, and 8 mm. thick. The rope hole is 30 mm. high and 43 mm. wide. The top center thickness is 8 mm. The shaft length and width are 36 mm. and 28 mm., respectively. The auxiliary hole is 28 mm. high and 8.1 mm. wide. The eye measures 17 mm. by 18 mm. The ears are 9.5 and 14.2 mm. long. My Edelrid Mago 8 weighs 38 g.
Both sides are forged with "EDELRID. The front is printed with "2018 12 UO1," "Mago," a book-with-an-"i" icon, a caution icon over a "←" (perhaps pointing to the book-with-an-"i" icon), a belay rigging illustration, a rappel rigging illustration, "EN 15151-2," "Ø 6,0-9,5," and another book-with-an-"i" icon.
The Edelrid Mago falls into my miscellaneous figure eights with ears category.
The Mago is the lightest non-toy figure eight in my collection. It was designed for 6.0 to 9.5 mm rope. I think 6 mm. rope is too small for a normal rappelling line, regardless of the material or construction, as it is too small to handle easily. I won't recommend anything less than 9 mm. The Mago can be used with 9.5 mm. line for rappelling, but the belay slots only admit 8 mm. line, and regardless of what the illustration printed on the Mago implies, I don't think 8 mm. is acceptable for belaying, and certainly not for belaying lead climbs.
I would be very reluctant to expose a small descender like this to sandy or muddy ropes, as the Mago has little margin for rope abrasion. I'ver discarded carabiners after a single 13 m. rappel on muddy caving rope wore a deep groove. The Mago would fare far worse, especially with a thinner cord to concentrate the wear. I'm certain that if I took the Mago to the same place, it would wear through to failure on the first rappel.
Although the Mago is small, the eye has plenty of room for accepting just about any normal carabiner; however, it is not large enough for two standard carabiners.
The slot is nonfunctional, being far too small for belaying.
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I acquired my Edelrid Rescue 8 from CanyonZone.com - Gertjan van Pelt in 2022.
The Edelrid Rescue 8 is forged from aluminum alloy and then hard anodized. Mine is 172 mm. tall, 171 mm. wide, and 15 mm. thick. The rope hole is 65 mm. high and 76 mm. wide. The top center thickness is 12 mm. The shaft length and width are 47 mm. and 41 mm., respectively. The auxiliary hole is 30.4 mm. high and 15.2 mm. wide. The eye measures 34 mm. by 40 mm. The ears are 34.5 mm. long. My Edelrid Rescue 8 weighs 241 g.
One side of is eight is printed with a strength test icon (not a rigging illustration!) with "△" above and "▽" below, all above "40 kN," "EDELRID," "0119," "Made in EEC," "19–309–0085," a book-with-an-"i" icon, "88920," "EN15–151.2" [sic], and "ø 7.8-13.0 mm."
The Edelrid Rescue 8 is a typical example of a forged aluminum rescue eight. The size, shape, and some of the markings are nearly identical to the Climbing Technology aluminum rescue eight.
The eye and ears are larger than they need to be. The belay slot is a reasonable size for a Sticht slot, and insetting part of the slot into the useless portion of the upper rope hole reduces the length of the eight. Still, like all rescue eights, this one is too large and heavy for a normal climbing or caving eight - there are much better devices, including some eared eights, that are smaller.
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