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Updates: 2007
• August 26, 2007
• August 6, 2007
- Major Update: Updated the entire Collection
at a Glance area, so it now shows almost everything in the
collection as of July 27, 2007:
- Moved the Climb High Version C Figure Eight
to the Figure Eights:
Climb High page.
- Minor additions to the following pages:
- Minor corrections on the following pages:
- Updated the Sources
List
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• July 7, 2007
• June 17, 2007
• June 10, 2007
• May 20, 2007
- Added the Rappel
Hammer, Version B, added to the Rappel
Hammer, Version A page, and updated the Horizontal
Spools page and the shared weight chart with the Vertical
Spools and Brake Tubes
pages accordingly.
- Added another Pierre
Allain descender and updated the Hooks
page accordingly. This required updating the Ten
Most Wanted List as well.
- Added the Krok
Half Crab and updated the Fixed
Multibar Devices page accordingly.
- Added the Petzl
Grillon Flipline Adjuster and updated the Most
Miscellaneous page accordingly.
- Added another Troll
(USA) Alp and updated the Poly-Bollards
page accordingly.
- Added the Kong
Ghost and updated the Slotted
Block Belay Devices page accordingly.
- Added the following Handled
Eccentric Cam Ascenders and updated the Handled
Eccentric Cam Ascenders and Ascender
Handle Dimensions pages accordingly:
- Added the following Belay
Tubes, and updated the Belay
Tubes page and the shared weight chart on the Tubers
page accordingly:
- Added the following Figure Eights, updated the Figure Eights page, updated the Figure Eight Dimensions and Figure Eight Table Set 2 pages, and updated the shared weight chart on
the Figure Eights,
Figure Eights
with Ears, and Complex
Figure Eights pages accordingly:
- Updated the photo on the BlueWater Airbrake page.
- Updated the photo on the Advanced
Base Camp Figure Eights page.
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• April 10, 2007
- Minor editorial corrections.
• April 8, 2007
- I separated the Tubers
from the Belay Tubes and
updated both guide pages. As part of this, I measured each of
the Tubers. I then updated
each of the Tuber pages. These
are the devices that I call Tubers:
- I also remeasured all of the Belay
Tubes and expanded the table on the Belay
Tubes page. I also updated the following Belay
Tube pages:
- Added the Petzl
Croll Versions C and D, Renamed the old C & D
as E & F, respectively, updated the linking
Petzl Basic page
to reflect the name change, and updated the Handleless
Eccentric Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
- Added the Mio
Mechanical MIO-R and MIO-R2 and updated the O-frame
& U-frame Racks page and the shared weight chart on the
J-frame Racks page accordingly.
- Added three Mio
Mechanical RR racks and updated the O-frame
& U-frame Racks page and the shared weight chart on the
J-frame Racks page accordingly.
- Added the Outside
belay plate and updated the Sticht
Plate Belayers page accordingly.
- Added another Salewa
Sticht plate and updated the Sticht
Plate Belayers page accordingly.
- After receiving more hate mail, I modified
the Petzl Pantin
B02 page to ask people to chill out. You would think I insulted
someone’s religion or something - no, I take that back: I've
never met religious fanatics….
- Added the Mio
Mechanical MIO-D and MIO-D2, and then updated the Vertical
Spools page and the shared weight chart with the Horizontal
Spools and Brake Tubes
pages accordingly.
- Added the following figure eights, updated
the Figure Eights
and Figure
Eights with Ears pages, updated the Figure Eight Dimensions, Data
2, Data
3, and Data
4 pages, and updated the shared weight chart on the Figure Eights, Figure Eights with Ears, and Complex Figure Eights pages accordingly:
- Updated the Trango
Figure Eights page.
- Identified and updated the eBay sources on
both the guide and device pages for the following:
- Added the Edelrid
Eddy and updated the Lever
Box Belay Devices page accordingly.
- Restructured and updated the Sources
List so that it would be easier to maintain.
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• March 18, 2007
• March 17, 2007
• March 4, 2007
- Added three new Salewa
Sticht plates and updated Sticht
Plate Belayers the page accordingly.
- Added another Wild
Country Raptor and updated the Slotted
Block Belay Devices page accordingly.
- Added the following belay tubes and updated
the Tube Belayers page accordingly:
- Added the following and updated the Handled Eccentric Cam Ascenders and Ascender
Handle Dimensions pages accordingly:
- Added the Kong
Kisa and upgraded the Anchor
Brakes page accordingly.
- Added the following Figure Eights and updated the shared weight
chart on the Figure
Eights, Figure
Eights with Ears, and Complex Figure Eights pages:
- Three more Clog
figure eights, and updated the Large
Forged Eights data table.
- CH
figure fight, and updated the Standard,
"Midi" Size, Forged Eights data table.
- Two more Kong
figure eights, and updated the Full
Size, Forged Eights with Fat Shafts and "Midi"
Size Forged Eights with Keeper Holes data tables.
- Troll
figure eight, and updated the Standard,
Full Size, Forged Eights data table.
- Another Wild
Country eight, and updated the "Mini"
Size Forged Eights data table.
- Updated the BlueWater and Simond
figure eight pages, and moved the Simond
to the Full
Size, Forged Eights with Fat Shafts data table.
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Major editorial corrections.
• February 25, 2007
• February 17, 2007
• February 6, 2007
• February 4, 2007
• January 27, 2007
- Updated the Omer 1 descender page.
- The Miscellaneous
Belay Devices category was getting too large and some of
the assignments to it were rather arbitrary. I created two new
categories and moved some belay devices into them. The new categories
and their contents are as follows:
- Lever
Box Belay Devices
- Slotted
Block Belay Devices
- Includes: Cassin
GTC, Faders
Variable Belay, Forrest
Triton, Graham,
Mammut
Matrix, Metolius
BRD, Russian
Bukashka-3, Snap
Alein & Cyclops, Trango
B52, Wild
Country Raptor, and WC
Variable Controller.
- To support my new belay device categories,
I clarified the definitions on the Belay
Devices, Sticht Plate
Belayers, and Tube Belayers
pages.
- Flipped the CMC
Rescue Escape Artist photographs.
- Updated the following Figure
Eights:
- Updated the Howell-N-Mann
Racks page.
- Removed the "Recent Acquisition Reviews"
area because I haven't been using it; instead, I have been putting
my reviews directly into the device pages.
- Fixed some links to the Discussion Area.
- Updated the Sources
List
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• January 21, 2007
- Added the CMC
Rescue Escape Artist, and updated the Miscellaneous
Descenders page accordingly.
- Added a Polish
copy of the Gibbs, and then updated the Type
1 Lever Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
- Added a new Quick
Release Gibbs and a new Spring-loaded
Gibbs, and then updated the Type
1 Lever Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
- Added a cross reference to 5/8
Gibbs the page.
- Added two Troll
Allps and updated the Poly-Bollards
page accordingly.
- Renamed and revised the Troll
(USA) Alp page.
- Updated the Fallright
Controlled Rate Descender page.
- Added the Kong
and the PMI
Figure Eights with Ears, and then modified the Figure Eights with Ears page and updated
the shared weight chart on the Figure Eights and Complex Figure Eights pages accordingly.
- Added the SMC
Mountaineering 8, updated the rest of the SMC
Figure Eights page, and then modified the Figure Eights page and updated the shared
weight chart on the Figure
Eights with Ears and Complex Figure Eights pages accordingly.
- Added another Petzl
Single-rope Bobbins and made numerous other changes to that
page, and then updated the Bobbins page and the shared weight chart
on the False
Bobbins and Stop
Bobbins pages accordingly.
- Added another SRT
Stop Bobbin and updated the Near Bobbins page and the shared weight
chart on the Bobbins
and Stop
Bobbins pages accordingly.
- Added another Robot,
supplied more details on the others, added new illustrations,
recognized that what I had called Bonaiti Version B was really
a Kong (now my Version A), and updated the Miscellaneous
Descenders page accordingly.
- Added the name of the Salewa
Tubus and corrected the cross references on the Singing
Rock and Tube Belayers
pages.
- Updated the Kong
Big "8s" page.
- Updated the ISC
Figure Eight page.
- Updated the Petzl
Stop Bobbins page.
- Updated the Display
at a Glance page.
- Added photographs to the following pages:
- Replaced blurred photos on the following
pages:
- Updated the Sources
List
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• January 16, 2007
- Added the Rock
Exotica (?) Double MicroCender and updated the Type
1 Lever Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
- Updated the Rock
Exotica ascenders page.
- Added the following Tube Belayers and updated
the Tube Belayers page accordingly:
- Updated the following Tube Belayer pages:
- Split the Tubers and Pyramids page into the
following five pages:
- Split the Tubers and Pyramids page into the
following five pages:
- Fixed the remaining Gallery sequence problems,
or at least all the ones that I know of.
• January 13, 2007
• January 9, 2007
• January 8, 2007
• January 1, 2007
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