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“Cheapskate locker” - use tape on a carabiner gate
Eventually you’ll find yourself in a climbing situation where you might need a secure carabiner setup, but you don’t have any more locking biners nor an extra regular biner to rig the well-known “opposite and opposed” set up. Provided you don’t need to open and close the biner very often, a simple solution might be called the “cheapskate locker”. Just use a regular carabiner and tape the gate closed, with whatever tape is (hopefully) handy. Situations where this might be useful are setting up top ropes that will be in use most of the day (remember to always have at least two anchor points for a toprope) or setting up a rappel where you are rapping off a single “leaver” carabiner. This is a favorite trick of big wall climbers, who always seem to be short on locking carabiners.
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