How strong is this tiny thing? #climbinggear #breaktest

The Climbing Taiwan Tool Cable Rings are great for attaching hammers, breaker bars, brushes, or whatever route development tools you need to keep clipped to your harness. We wanted to find out how strong they are, so we put it in the break tester. It broke at 0.4 kN (about 90 lbs), which is super strong enough to keep your hammer clipped to your harness. They are cheap and come in a pack of ten!

[MasterArkannor]

Perfect for anything attached to your rig that could get caught and needs to break away.

[chrishiggins]

As a climbing arborist, I think these would be good for a breakaway attachment point for a work positioning lanyard. This would be useful in a situation where if the part of the tree I'm climbing breaks(particularly dead trees), I can remain suspended from my tie-in point. I currently just use a prusik loop of paracord instead when I'm in that sort of situation.

[snower]

When the car rental company puts two huge keys on one keychain, I cut it off and replace it with one of these.

[blacksmith]

Drop of Loctite and it would make a semi-secure luggage tag tie.

Could slip it through a colourful cord outer sheath the same length and again use Loctite to secure it to luggage as an identifying marker.

[handsomerob]

I use them for securing sockets in order in my bag. I’ve used them as “temporary zip ties” to secure some cables.

[andycarroll]

Have one attached to my keys for ages and often wondered how strong. Nice one

[roybiv]

I use those on my plastic bins that I keep my camping gear in. 2 of them on one side and it's like a hinge and doesn't blow away. Move one to the other side so it doesn't open when in the back of the truck.

[drumsmichael]

Keychain! I replaced those atrocious metal rings in all my keychains :)

[username]

Ha! I have that as my keychain. I wouldn't trust it as a tool lanyard because their QC is non-existent. Does HowNot2 test all of these before selling them, or at least inspect them? I
assume these are all made in the same factory, my random eBay seller had identical knurling and crimp design on 9 of them. On the 10th the crimp only grabbed the vinyl cutter, it fell apart by hand, would suck to drop a hammer on someone's head because one of these failed...

[phh]

I use them for all the zippers, small pull things, everything as my fine motor skills are not 100% reliable

[JKMaster]

Could you test Seatbelts Band and the seatbelt-lock?

[frankthetank]

Can you try out the Milwaukee tool lanyards? I have 2x and use for drills/electric chainsaw and love them

[timonix]

I would love to have a reliable "fuse". Which breaks at a. Consistent and low force

[Daniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiielle]

How many does it take to hold someone with those

[jradventure]

How many of us bin the tabs on your jackets in summer yet cus blind in winter when you need to take your gloves off to work your zips in winter

[mattfleming]

Tree climber here:
Breakaway for your neck lanyard on your ascender.

[PAClimber]

.4kn… Did you actually test dropping a drill or a hammer? Might get close to that.

[daniellambden]

They come in a 10 pack? Gotta test 10 in one

[uno_king]

Those things can't always keep your luggage tag attached to your suitcase. They're not good for much more than a keychain.

[mr.starly]

Car keys, house gate, temporary locking something, anything other than using it for your life.