peanut (thing)

The Peanut is very much like the nut in climbing, the main innovation is that the peanut is asymmetric about three axes. This greatly increases the range of cracks that the peanut will wedge in. As far as I know only DMM makes these. They work astonishingly well.

                        
                             
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top view (rotated 90 degrees from diagram
             in nut )

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