Should You Retire Dropped Climbing Gear? #climbing #science #engineering

so what happens if I accidentally drop a

quick drop

Rock so there is this theory that if I

get

unlucky a micro crack might form inside

the Carabiner that would be invisible to

outside

inspection and with repeat at

loading this micro crack could grow and

eventually

however there has been many debates

whether this micr fracture theory is

correct or not so to settle the matter I

visited three different companies for

this video I got access to a very

Advanced testing equipment even looked

inside the carabiners and had a

conversation with metallics engineer

from mammut that's the lowest one we had

so far so maybe it will get interesting

maybe it will get interesting he said