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I acquired this Kong Trimmer from David Richards in 2025.
My Kong Trimmer is 86 mm. long, 67 mm. wide, and 30 mm. high. It is permanently mounted on the flipline, and the complete assembly weighs 470 g.
The Trimmer consists of two 4 mm. aluminum alloy plates riveted together with a with a cam assembly sandwiched between the plates. One end of each plate is bent inward, where a 15.7 mm. diameter hole in each plate align to form an attachment eye. The plates are held together by two shoulder rivets. The ipper one serves as a guide bollard and the lower as a cam axle.
The cam is an aluminum sheave eccentrically mounted on the lower rivet. It is 14 mm. wide, 38 mm. in diameter, and has a U-shaped circumferential groove witha 26 mm. inner diameter. The cam has a projection that fits into an arcuate slot in the rear plate, so the cam is free to rotate with respect to the platez within limits set by this slot. A stamped aluminum lever is attached to the cam plate.
The front of the Trimmer is printed with a large Kong logo and "195066 19 0488. A tag on the line has the KONG ITALY logo, "ITALY," "TRIMMER," "MADE IN ITALY," "289.U00," "CE0426," "EN358:99," a factory icon, "10/20/2019", an hourglass icon, "10/20/2029"L 0 - 2 m," "EAC," TPTC 019/2011," a book-with-an-"i" icon, and "222197312 19 0053." The snap hook is printed with the KONG ITALY logo, the UIAA logo, "CE0426," book-with-an-"i" icon, MBS KN↔33↕10", an open carabiner icon, "15," EN362:04/13 E,"TESTS MEET NFPA 1983 (2007 ED) T," "193471 19 2969," and "715.000."
Tension on the hook end of the line rotates the cam to lock the Trimmer, and depressing the thumb lever releases the cam to let the line slide through the Trimmer. THis does not work very well with mine. By the time I depress the lever enough to release the line, the thumb tab is pressing the line against the base of the trimmer shell, causing excessive drag. It acts like the flipline supplied with the trimmer is too large for the Trimmer, at least for my unit.
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