I recently received the ENO doublenest for a gift and love it. The carabiners that it came with appear to be steel. Has anyone switched those to a aluminum screwlock carabiner? Of course with affecting the weight capacity. Any help would be greatly apprciated.
Registered: 02/23/07
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I am not familiar with this hammock or the carabiners supplied with it, but, in general, if I get an item with non-climbing biners, I substitute climbing grade items, usually as light as possible - might as well have multi-purpose gear.
Outside of a few specialized fire and rescue biners, nobody makes steel biners anymore. I would think that aluminum would be just fine. I don't see why they would even have to be locking.
The whole concept of non-climbing biners appalls me, because sooner or later they are going to get used where they shouldn't, and bad things will happen.
A lot of folks with an ENO swap out the suspension in its entirety, and there are a lot of options that don't require biners at all. If you have difficulties with the stock straps stretching a lot, you may want to do that. (I believe Slapstraps are nylon, which never stops stretching.)
You can find all of them at hammockforums.net. Plus more about camping with hammocks than you'd thought possible.
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I agree with lori. A friend of mine has an ENO with the slap straps. They stretch. I don't like the slap straps because they stretch and you have limited adjustment options.
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FYI, Just an update..ENO responded to my email and the carabiners supplied with the doublenest hammock are steel, if anyone would like this info. Also I have the Pro slap straps and will elimnating the steel biners...
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