trevmcrev said:
Nice mod with the keeper on the delta
Still laughing bout the ear squeezing example:hmm3grin2orange:
Trev
Heh heh. Ok, that was a practical joke. My bad.
That Delta rig is nice, keeps your steel triple lock oriented in the proper direction. The wing mod to the Delta was because of just the thing mentioned; repetitive tasks. The Delta will flip around, the part acting as the 'roller' side ends up horizontal and dropping down, and the bend you see that has the biner in it goes to the top and cradles over top on the Sliding D strap. The biner, obeying the laws of gravity, drops to the bottom.
Every time it seemed, that I'd go to use it, the biner would have to be repositioned and the delta turned and oriented the proper direction. The wing offered two major benefits, first the flipping around of the Delta ended pronto. I tried out leather, plastic and stainless steel 'traps' to hold the biner captive. Bingo. All stays nicely oriented.
Second benefit, as in the delta shown above, has a small, curved wing, which, by the way, makes the delta a tool-less removal if you need to take it off by hand. Also if the screw part of the delta-shaped screwlink turns any amount, the wing misaligns and you see it clearly and immediately and you give it a little twist back into place.
I made up a few of these deltas, tried a few versions over a few years. Below is another pic of a different one. This one has a bigger wing and worked even better. Eventually I replaced that bigger wing delta with a totally different stepped-up improvement and used the deltas as accessory pieces, like in the pic below where I had the same complaint as dc, with the small D rings. This setup allowed maximal use of a small, right-side D, multiplying it's capacity.
Having
the ability to be more versatile, this is good. Keeping multiple things coming off a single ring, keeping them separted and funtioning independently while not getting kajumbled with each other, this is
more good.
I hope some of this helps.