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Plate Devices slots. The spring keeps the device from jamming and
The original belay/rappel plate was called the Sticht allows the rope to be fed more easily when using the
plate, manufactured in Germany by Salewa, and device for belaying, although I remember the spring
popular in the 1970s. The one I own is stamped seemed to always get caught on and tangled with
dopple seilbremse, which means “double-rope brake” in all the other gear I was carrying. To rappel with the
German. It is a round aluminum disk with two slots Sticht plate on a double rope, the two bights of rope
and a spring on one side. The plate can be used with are threaded through the two slots and clipped into
either one or two ropes threaded through the slot or a locking carabiner attached to the harness, with the
spring positioned on the carabiner side.

Two different ways to
rig a plate device (the
Kong Gigi): standard
mode, left, and . . .

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