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Metal Steps KMC

Cave_Troll

Active member
its odd.
looking at Raumer's website it seems their version is both stainless and galvanised perhaps to try to make them dull matt grey rather than too shiny
 

andrewmcleod

Well-known member
Cave_Troll said:
I assume they are actual via ferrata staples not just random bits of rebar and may well be stainless ?
if so then we'd not need to worry about them forming streaks of rust down the walls

I thought most via ferrata staples _were_ just bent bits of rebar... Stainless are available but would bankrupt many via ferrata installers, I suspect!
 

Cave_Troll

Active member
they may have been once, but all the ones i've seen over the last 5 years conform to standards

see
https://www.raumerclimbing.com/eng/prodotti_clista.asp?cat=via_ferrata_stemples-pegs-handrails-metal_ladders&qi=0-21-0


 

Badlad

Administrator
Staff member
My understanding is that the staples in KMC were home made from standard rebar and painted before installation. 
 
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