Black Diamond Hoodwire - Description:
Thanks to its innovative stainless steel wire hood, the hot-forged Black Diamond HoodWire carabiner fuses keylock functionality with wiregate performance. This lightweight, unique design makes for hassle-free, snag-free clipping and cleaning, plus it won't freeze up in alpine conditions or suffer from gate whiplash. Thanks to its hot forged construction, no detail on the HoodWire has been overlooked, including an optimized nose angle and a wide, rope-bearing basket radius.Hot-forged construction.Patent-pending stainless steel wire hood eliminates snagging.Wire gate won't freeze in alpine conditions.Lightweight and designed for all-around use.
Technical Specifications:
Weight : 37 g (1.3 oz)
Closed Gate Strength :24 kN (5395 lbf)
Open Gate Strength : 8 kN (1,798 lbf)
Minor Axis Strength :8 kN (1, 798 lbf)
Gate Opening : 24 mm (.94 in)
Thanks to its innovative stainless steel wire hood, the hot-forged Black Diamond HoodWire carabiner fuses keylock functionality with wiregate performance. This lightweight, unique design makes for hassle-free, snag-free clipping and cleaning, plus it won't freeze up in alpine conditions or suffer from gate whiplash. Thanks to its hot forged construction, no detail on the HoodWire has been overlooked, including an optimized nose angle and a wide, rope-bearing basket radius.Hot-forged construction.Patent-pending stainless steel wire hood eliminates snagging.Wire gate won't freeze in alpine conditions.Lightweight and designed for all-around use.
Technical Specifications:
Weight : 37 g (1.3 oz)
Closed Gate Strength :24 kN (5395 lbf)
Open Gate Strength : 8 kN (1,798 lbf)
Minor Axis Strength :8 kN (1, 798 lbf)
Gate Opening : 24 mm (.94 in)
Fabric:
- Hot-forged construction
Hood:
- Patent-pending, stainless steel wire hood design doesn't snag
- Innovative hood design on nose is self cleaning and protects the nose from wear.
- Nose hood prevents snagging.
Features:
- Won’t freeze up in alpine conditions or suffer from gate whiplash
- Optimized nose angle and wide, rope-bearing basket radius
- Lightweight and designed for all-around use
- Provides hassle-free, snag-free clipping and cleaning
Campmor
The Black Diamond HoodWire Wiregate carabiner is an awesome new design. It has the light weight and great clipping feel of a normal wire gate carabiner, but a protective hood to keep it from snagging.
Moosejaw
The Black Diamond HoodWire Carabiner. The innovative hood design on this all new, snag-free wiregate biner is simple, self-clearing and protects the nose from wear.
Appalachain Outdoors
Every detail has been thought of with this unique and lightweight wiregate caribiner. The new Hoodwire should be your first choice for climbing protection. Let Black Diamond Equipment show you what hassle-free climbing should be like.Backcountry.com
It's all about the size and the strength of the 'biner.
Before you start frantically slapping at your freakishly light harness and wondering where your hardware is, give a quick twist and listen for the telltale jangle of your trusty Black Diamond Carabiner bumping into your ATC. At a slim 37 grams each, these tiny wiregates boast the strength ratings of typical burly 'biners but won't pull your harness and pants off with the extra weight. In fact, you may not even notice them at all.
Average Price History:
| Carabiner Shape: | D |
|---|---|
| Closed Gate Strength: | 5.395 lbf / 24 kN |
| Gate Opening: | 24 mm (.94 in) |
| Gate Type: | wire |
| Hot-forged construction: | lightweight and designed for all-around use |
| Key Lock Gate: | No |
| Locking: | no |
| Major Axis Strength: | 24 kN |
| Major Axis Strength (Closed): | 24 kN |
| Major Axis Strength (Open): | 8 kN |
| Minor Axis Strength: | 8 kN (1, 798 lbf) |
| Open Gate Strength: | 8 kN (1,798 lbf) |
| Recommended Use: | rock climbing |
| Shape: | offset-D |
| Warranty: | 1 year |
| Weight: | 37 g (1.3 oz) |
| Weight (Grams): | 37 g |
| Weight [with packaging]: | 0.1 lb |
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Black Diamond Hoodwire Reviews:
Reviews:
Solid biner from BD. It has all the perks of a wiregate (light, minimal gate flutter) with most of the perks of a keylock, and is about 20% cheaper than a WC Helium. I'm also not as worried about accruing gunk in the hood as I am with the WC ("self cleaning"!).
The reasons I only gave them 4 stars: 1) The wire hood doesn't go quite as far out as the beginning of the notch (about 1mm, see picture) so there's still a hint of a snag sometimes vs. a keylock (very minor, and not noticeable at all if you're using it for a rope-end biner). 2) There are some inconsistencies in gate tension between biners, probably something to do with the flattened wire. That being said, the gates are all still snappy and trustworthy, just not as consistent as I'd like to see.
In conclusion: I will definitely be buying these again. An awesome rope-end biner with a little room for improvement.
Terrific carabiner
For a long time I'd been drooling over the wild country helium, essentially the dopest wire gate keylock biner around, and actually the only one around. Then petzl came out with the ange and BD came out with this beauty. I've used all, and really they all pretty much work about as good as the other. BD offers these in two sizes to compete with the two offered by petzl. But the real difference is in price. Any body doing trad knows that when it comes to biners we need a lot of them. So a five dollar difference in price between these vs. the petzl or wild country quickly makes a huge difference.
Works as advertised
I have been accumulating this style of biner for all of my trad draws. They are VERY easy to clip and unclip from both the rope and from gear, a comfortable size and durable as far as my limited use can attest to. The only thing that I don't like is the fact that one can only buy them in one color. The hoodwire quickdraw has an orange and a grey biner, so I wish they sold the grey biner standalone as it would be useful for rack organization.
BD's clever and cheap answer to the WC Helium
The WC Helium is the coolest biner ever, but is expensive and not widely available. WC uses some nice machining to create a hooded, snag-free wiregate. BD just decided to take the Hotwire biner and add a flat wire on the nose, creating a hooded, snag free wiregate. Easy, cheap, and clever. The biner works as advertised... it doesn't catch things when you clip/unclip, just like a nice keylock biner. It is also still very light. I give it two thumbs up.
Quality control may be an issue, but clever and affordable
I bought a bunch of these and I like most of them, but a few seem to have the wire gate that is a bit off line because it scrapes on the nose a bit. I would say at least 9/10 don't have this problem. If you can spend the money you with NEVER, NEVER, NEVER regret getting the Wild Country Helium biner, but if you can't afford it, these are a great second option.
Not just for climbing
I use this carabiner for hooking my car keys to my beltloop so I will have it with me all the time. I take it anytime I go backpacking or whitewater kayaking. It works great for clipping drybags in the boat or for use in a 2:1 or 3:1 Z-drag pulley system for pinned kayaks. I'm not a climber but I bet its great for that as well being what it's designed for and all.
very lightweight and affordable
since I am a beginner of climbing, I asked some of my friends about carabiner, and most of them suggest this one to me. its a little bit expensive than BD's traditional biner (Light D for example), but I did my study so I found the "Open Gate Strength" had been increased to 8 kN on this model -- safer always better, isn't it? 8)
Great for racking nuts! not sure I would get it for any other use
this is great for racking any gear you would find getting snagged on a standard carabiner and is lighter weight than a keylock, plus it is smoother than a keylock anyway... no snag at all vs the little metal nubs that are on the keylock. I dont buy keylocks anyway but if I did I would buy these instead.
Great for lightweight bolt side of quickdraws
Use these guys on the bolt side of my quickdraws. Light, no gate flutter, med-large size, and snagless = winner. If you want a lighter and snagless biner go with the newer Oz's that aren't too small.
greatttttttt
awesome biner i have switched this out with many for the biners i have on my quickdraws as i love the no snag on it when clipping in.
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