WHY ARE WIRE GATES CARABINERS SO STRONG?
Wire gates are stronger because their stainless steel sprung-steel gate significantly exceeds the strength of a aluminium gate, the weak point in any carabiner. The stainless steel wire is actually the strongest part of the carabiner body – with the aluminium body failing before the gate breaks, closed, open or miner axis, and in every test the wire gives a higher test result then a conventional gated crab. A lot of the carabiners that are old school solid models that have been modified to wire gates (Wild Country Wild Wire, BD Quickwire) are stronger then their solid traditional gated cousins, although have the same rated strengths because it’s too expensive to change the body’s of the crabs. The key strength difference in Wire gates is in there ability to reduce the ‘whiplash’ affect on the gate in a fall. Any modern carabiner with it’s gate closed is virtually unbreakable unless it is loaded over and edge or is damaged in some way. Generally the only reason carabiners break is a com
