Making a Homemade CARABINER from Damascus Steel! Part 2

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[TheROOTminus]

Alec, go speak to DMM, based in Llanberis, to see how they forge them en-mass. That would be a cool vid in a similar vein to your visit to Tata steelworks or when you went to your local foundry

[gregholley]

obviously it goes without saying that Damascus and Aluminium have different tensile strength. So please just be careful on how much fall/sheer pressure is applied when you use it.
Otherwise nice one! have fun!

[Newpts]

You should look into how carabiners can cut ropes, it's really quite insane to me how little of an edge can result in such a catastrophic failure. Even what would appear to be a smooth edge can be dangerous, even with strong ropes.

[metalk]

So that climbing harness is how Jamie gets such excellent shots o.0

[TroyZ]

I'm SO happy to see you and Jamie living the best of your lives! Man, this whole lore is so wholesome

[MrTheTwiggy]

Jamie:

As a rock climber I can say wearing a harness to do normal stuff is normal. Thank you for representing us with the correct amount of stoke.

[liam]

Please do a DMM factory tour, the hot drop forge their aluminium carabiners and I have now idea how they make their steel ones. It would be fascinating to see your perspective on their manufacturing, plus Jamie would get to make beautiful B roll of North Wales.

[dumbideas]

Hownot2 is a youtube channel that breaks carabiners. you should do a collab with them to see how strong your carabiner really is.

[joshmcgahan]

As a tree surgeon I absolutely love to see you making stuff like this! It's very interesting!

[benjaminblair]

I think it'll be really interesting to see the wear on the damascus pattern after the caving trip! Can't think of many others doing this level of material testing on pattern welded steel ;D

[Harmoth]

Alec, your work is phenomenal, so I propose a challenge to you, to produce all the hardware of an electric guitar in damascus steel. It would be really cool to see you do this.
A big thank you for all your content that I've been following for years.
Wagner Berzagui from Brazil

[michaelwoods]

Seeing you strapped up in the air makes me want to see you do a video forging but only in the air no feet on the ground. Makes me imagine a old time skyscraper worker up there working away.

[josh]

I am seriously enjoying the videos where you make these every day objects like the lighter and crescent wrench. Its so interesting to see the mechanisms behind the items. Keep up the good work!

[KeppyKep]

Nice to see you guys hanging out while you work.

[Merennulli]

Thank you, I'm feeling very down today, so I needed to see you two up in climbing harnesses. You really raised your work to a new level with this.

[fakjbf]

When I was in Boy Scouts getting the Climbing merit badge the instructor did a demonstration for how strong the ropes. He attached the rope to his harness and suspended himself about a foot off the ground, then cut the sheath around the outside exposing six smaller stranded ropes that braid together into the core. He then cut each strand one by one until he was suspended by only a single core rope. That made me much more confident while climbing because I knew just how overengineered the ropes were which made it easier to just trust them to do the job and focus on the actual climbing.

[SigmaEpsilon]

Climbing and especially rappelling is one of my favorite things.

[dolboyascher]

How about risk of delamination in real stressing usage condition in future?

[-anarchy]

I think it might be beneficial if you only surface-harden it like it is done with gears. This way you can achieve some more strenght with a still low risk of snapping it. As far as I know, surface hardening can be achieved by blasting it with glasbeads just like in sandblasting. The material should work harden on the surface. But if you actually put your life on the line with this, better trust your guts.
We just learned about this method in university which is why it came to my mind. Its a pretty cool concept that could possibly work quite well for parts like this.

[ZevVeli]

I understand what you mean about being scared of heights. When I was in the Boy Scouts I could never do the climbing more than above a certain amount of height. Although for me the fear was going up not down so if I started high up I could climb down no problem. I did go caving once my last year as a youth but we didn't do much traversing of ropes, just one in order to get around a drop that most people didn't go past.