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Product failure?

enkriss said:
rappelling snapped off guy free fell the rest of the trip to the ground.

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From the picture it appears to me that there may be stealth stripping or something inside the Safeguard. Is it possible that it could have jammed the cam action? I tend to agree with @Empostarr that the handle breaking off shouldn't have resulted in a freefall. In fact I once had a Safeguard fail in a similar fashion. The handle rivet broke and the handle came off in my hand. The Safeguard however carried my weight just fine. Only issue was I couldn't get it to release until I was able to unweight it.

First Mechanical Device Failure Tonight (Safeguard)

Tonight I dragged the camper to the area I'm hunting this weekend and arrived right at 6:00. Rushed out to spend an hour in an observation sit. I was setup on the edge of a large clear cut and sat right to last light. When I went to rappel down the lever of my Safeguard came right off in my...
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enkriss said:
Like what?
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The color of socks worn by the individual. Whether or not they were using any Tethr’d products, and what generation of recall it was. Also, color of chewing gum, or if they replaced it with Amsteel. Pick your nonsensical.
 
Empostarr said:
I agree.

Looking at this photo, the only thing that broke is the lever, which allows you to release the grip of the safeguard and that's all. It looks like the biner attachment for both plates is still intact, and you can see his thumb on the part that does the actual grabbing on the rope. If the lever is all that snapped and he took a ride to the ground, I would expect he should have been taking that ride regardless, because it wouldn't have been grabbing the rope he was using even when the device was in working order. So, given this picture and how the safeguard works, and the fact he was using a rope that a lot of people use without incident, what else could have contributed to falling the rest of the way down? Seems like there is something missing, or it's simply don't use rope that's out of spec.

If this broke on mine, I'd be expecting to try and figure out a different way down my rope, since the handle couldn't be used to release the tension anymore. Is it concerning it broke to begin with? Hell yeah. But the more information on what really happened, besides it broke and he fell, the better.
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100% true you would be stuck. The guy was full of crap about free falling.

If he did free fall he probably wouldn’t be posting to talk about it. It did break. But we don’t know how and the source isn’t speaking the truth.
 
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