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Updates: 2008
• December 26, 2008
- Added pages and/or entries for the following
devices and updated the indicated type summary pages:
• December 7, 2008
- Updated the introduction on the Chest
Boxes page, and the following Chest
Box pages as well:
- Minor (non-technical) variation designation changes affecting the following pages:
• November 30, 2008
- Added pages and/or entries for the following
devices and updated the indicated type summary pages:
- I added technical details to the following
U-frame Racks pages:
- I made minor updates on the following pages:
• November 23, 2008
• September 21, 2008
- Added an illustration to the H-Bar
page.
- Updated my Strength
Soapbox
- I restored my Modified CMI Version A
and B Large and Small UltrAscenders to their original form,
and then modified a pair of Version D Large and Version C
Small UltrAscenders. The changes required modifications to the
following pages:
- Added pages and/or entries for the following
devices and updated the indicated type summary pages:
• September 14, 2008
• August 4, 2008
- Minor updates to the following pages:
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• July 27, 2008
• July 15, 2008
- Updated the descriptions for the following
Figure Eights With Ears:
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• June 15, 2008
• April 20, 2008
• March 23, 2008 - MAJOR UPDATE! MANY
ADDITIONS!
- Added the following devices and updated the
indicated type summary pages:
- Clog,
Version H (Handleless
Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
- CMI
Bottle Opener 8 (Toy
Eights)
- CMI
Shorti II (Handleless
Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
- CMI
Small UltrAscender, Version C (Handled Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
- Kong-Bonaiti,
Version A (Handled
Eccentric Cam Ascenders)
- Jumar,
Version B (Handled
Eccentric Cam Ascenders) (I renamed the old versions B, C,
and D as C, D, and E, respectively, and revised the Jumar
E page)
- Hopf, Version B (Miscellaneous
Descenders). I updated the Ten
Most Wanted List accordingly.
- MSR Belay Link, Version B (Sticht Plate Belayers)
- Storrick Double Allp, Version B (Poly-Bollards)
- Troll Allp, Versions A & D (Poly-Bollards)
In the process, I renamed the old versions A, B, and C as B,
C, and E, respectively. I also made considerable changes to the
existing Allp descriptions.
- Added pages for the following devices and
updated the indicated type summary pages:
- Added the following figure eights:
- Cassin,
Version E
- CMI
Standard, Version E (I interchanged
the names of Versions C and D, and moved the CMI
Ultra 8 to its own page)
- Fusion
- Kirnoz
- Kong
Classic
- Mammut,
Version E (I interchanged the names
of Versions C and D)
- Russ
Anderson, Version B (I renamed
the old versions B, C, and D as C, D, and E, respectively)
- Singing
Rock
- Viking,
Version B
- SSP,
Version D
- Rescue
Q
- Updated the Figure
Eights and Figure Eights
With Ears pages accordingly.
- Updated the height vs. width charts on the
Figure Eight Dimensions and Figure
Eight /w Ears Data 1 pages.
- Also updated the Figure Eight Table Set 1, Figure Eight Table Set 2, Figure Eight Table Set 3, Figure Eight Table Set 4, Figure
Eight /w Ears Data 3, and Figure
Eight /w Ears Data 4 pages.
- Updated the shared weight chart on the Figure Eights,
Figure Eights
with Ears, and Complex
Figure Eights pages accordingly.
- Updated the following hauling pulley pages.
Most of these updates were to add source and dimension information.
- Updated the Prusik
Knot page.
- Updated my Rappel
Safeties Internet Post page.
- Updated cross-references in the Lucky
Face and Trango
Penta descriptions.
- Updated all of the Key Chain
Eights descriptions.
- Updated the Blake’s
Hitch page.
- Updated the Quechua
8 page.
- Updated the Kong
Big "8s" page.
- Updated the Bobbins:
General Comments page.
- Updated the Miller
8174 Versions A description.
- Updated and renamed the Tractel
Stopfor S (formerly Tractel-Stop) page and updated the Rope Grabs page accordingly
- Updated the Ural
Alp page
- Updated the Fisher
Eights page.
- Updated the Petzl
Croll page.
- Updated the Kong-Bonaiti
Modular Ascender page.
- Updated the Kong-Bonaiti
Modular Ascender handles page.
- Updated the Black
Diamond, Edelrid
Lotse, Mad
Rock Paradox, Omega
Pacific SBGs, Salewa
Tubus, Simond
Cubik, Singing
Rock, Trango
Jaws, Wild
Country VC Pro, and Zero-G
G-Wedge pages with minor editorial corrections.
- Updated the Russian
Type 1 Lever Cam Ascenders page and updated the Type
1 Lever Cam Ascenders page accordingly.
- Updated links on the various Collection
at a Glance pages.
- Updated my "no hate mail" plea
on the Petzl Pantin
page.
- Added photographs to the following pages
(no text changes):
- Updated the Stupid
Icons page.
- Updated the Sources
List.
- Updated the Ten
Most Wanted List.
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• February 24, 2008
- Added another Motorized
Ascending Device
- I removed all of the patent .pdfs from my
site and replaced them with links to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office web site. Not only
does ths provide access to the originals as well as convenient
access to other patents referred to in the originals, but it
also released about 20% of my web site’s disk allocation for
expansion.
- Removed the site access statistics from the
Vertical Home
page. My ISP changed the way that they report statistics so I
can no longer keep this updated as before.
- Updated the Sources
List.
- Updated the Vertical Home page.
- Updated the Ten
Most Wanted List.
- Minor editorial corrections.
• February 10, 2008
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