Yeah, I get that. My own rule is if I have to use more than three pieces of gear from the hardware store, the climb is officially a home repair project. I once tried something similar with a camming unit made from a ratchet strap and a doorstop. Held my weight for a solid ten seconds before I learned a quick lesson about gravity.

I mean, my version of a heat shield is just more zip ties and hope. It hasn't caught fire yet, so I'm calling it a win. Maybe I should upgrade to a license plate one of these days.

Yeah, "locked up the whole lab" is the key part. Avery's right that a single loop shouldn't crash things now, but back then? One bad pointer could make a whole shared system give up. Those old labs were a different kind of fragile.

Consider it a lifetime investment.

Saw a study once about how adding even a small delay cuts impulse buys by like half. The ice trick is just a physical version of that. It's not about being unable to handle a real emergency, it's about adding friction to the easy, bad choices. If your card is always ready, you're fighting willpower every single time. That's exhausting. The ice method means you only fight that battle when it's something big enough to wait for.