Reverso

I’ve rapped on the petzl purline a bunch. I use a grivel scream and an autoblock and it is great. You could also use a reverso and stuff both strands through one slot and add a second locking carabiner…

belay gloves / assisted braking device (grigri, pilot, giga jul) and you will be totally fine also consider thickness of rope vs size of atc. some are super wide and thinner ropes fly through (BD ATC), some are really skinny (e.g. Petzl reverso) and thick ropes will be almost jammed in there in your

Not a ton of differentiation aside from guide loops. Some models dont like fatter ropes as much (think petzl reverso, dmm pivot) while others are more okay with them (think ATC) but any will work just fine for a rap so in that regard yeah a tube is a tube. If you are really into the nitty gritty som

I use the petzl reverso and have found it plenty grippy on anything down to the beal gully 7.3. Fresh out of the box it's so grippy actually, that I reverse it when rappelling with 7.5 half routes and fatter. Above 9.2 it actually becomes a pain in the ass to use lol.

Might be over-doing the third hand. What are you using for a third hand and what are you tying? I had similar issues when I was using accessory cord and tying a classic prusik. Switched to a Sterling hollow block and started doing a autoblock instead of prusik. I’d recommend playing around with it a

I haven't seen anyone really talk about it, but for me the perfect belay device that's on the market currently depends on the type of climbing you are doing. Sport: Edelrid Pinch the direct attachment to the harness is a game changer. I haven't used my GriGri in over a year unless I have to, and hat

A reverso works fine for a rad line, even for a rap. Petzl even explicitly states so, as long as you can introduce additional friction.