General hardware

Vertical caving terminology and methods

General hardware

Subsections

• Rope, accessory cord, cord, paracord, parachute cord
• Rope label, rope tag
• Shrinkage, pre-shrinking a rope, soaking a rope
• Furry rope, hairy rope
• Rope washer, rope brush, rope scrubber
• Fall factor
• Drop testing, drop testing rig, pull testing
• Cable, wire, wire cable, wire rope
• Carabiner, karabiner, crab, krab (sometimes "snap-link", "locker", "biner" or "clip" in USA)
• Clip (to an object), clip in
• Maillon ("may-on", or "may-o(n)" if you want perfect French, or "mallion" if you don't know how to read), maillon rapide (sometimes "quick link" in USA)
• Pulley, progress capture pulley
• Sling, tape sling
• Bungee cord, shock cord, elasticated cord
• Tether ("lanyard" in rope access)
• Keeper cord
• Tackle
• Tackle bag, tackle sack, rope bag
• Tackle store, tackle room, kit store, kit room
• Minimum breaking strength, minimum breaking strain, breaking strain, MBS, working load limit, WLL, safe working load, SWL, safety factor (SF), strength
• Petzl

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