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Black Diamond Offset Micro Stopper 3
  • Black Diamond Offset Micro Stopper 3
  • Black Diamond Offset Micro Stopper 3

Offset Micro Stopper 3

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Description

From aid pitches to hard, modern trad routes, Black Diamond Offset Micro Stoppers provide essential protection in pin scars, flaring cracks and awkward, misshaped placements. The copper/iron construction provides an optimized amount of bite and holding power in any rock type. The Offset Micro's unique construction relies on a head piece forged onto the cable for increased cable durability.

• Copper/iron mix in an offset design provides an excellent combination of bite and strength
• Patented swage is strong, flexible, and less prone to fraying

Retail price

US$ 15.95
Weight (grams / ounces) 10 g / 0.32 oz
Size 3 micro nut (full strength)
Colors as a Nut Set Single
Strength (kilonewtons) 5 kN
Color Gray
Offset Yes offset
Range (inches / millimeters) ­
Material(s) Main Material: Copper/Iron
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Certification CE, UIAA

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Outdoor Gear Lab Gear Review rating 4.5/5

The Black Diamond Offset Micro isn't durable enough for every day trad climbing because they aren't as durable due to the soft metal of their heads and their wires being more prone to kinking. For a smaller everyday nut, we'd recommend the still offset but aluminum DMM Peenut coupled along with the DMM Alloy Offsets. However, for thinly protected routes that require tiny protection along with any big wall or aid route, these things are undoubtedly the ticket. After extensive side-by-side comparison, we like the DMM HB Brass Offset slightly better because of their softer metal and subtly better performance in more featured rock, but without a sale on them, we think these are very nearly as good for a lot less money.

Splitter Choss Gear Review no rating given just a review

From granite cracks, to basalt and sandstone seams, they tend to work where nothing else will. The smallest sizes are recommended for aid climbing only, but I like to think of them as my “it’s OK, just put them in and keep climbing till you find something better” pieces. Also, the folks who frequent the big walls of Zion and their copious flaring pin scars will likely find them an indispensable part of their rack.

Rock and Ice Gear Review rating 5/5

These tiny nuts are a compound of copper and iron machined to offset wedges and swaged with a patented technology that Black Diamond claims is strong, flexible and not prone to fraying. These are the next-generation RP. After a few trips up The Health Issue, a new granite 5.11 close to the office, I was impressed by the nuts' durability. Alloys usually dent and scratch pretty quickly, but the Micro Stoppers held up to some yanking, though (thankfully) no falls.
I really like the shape of the offset, which BD touts as optimized for pin scars. I found two natural seams on the route where the offset shape fit when a regular tapered steel nut didn't.

Offset Micro Stopper