Every once in a while I get consumed by the overwhelming desire to compare all the options that we climbers have for a particular product. It's a pain to pull all the catalogs together and make an informed decision without dragging the data together ... so I've started saving the results. Here's one I did in January 2000 for sewn slings.
| Manufacturer | Name | Strength | Weight (of 24" runner) | Colors | Price (of 24" runner) | Comments |
| Black Diamond | Spectra 5/8" (14mm) | 22kN | 35.1g | unknown | $5.95 | |
| Black Diamond | Nylon 11/16" Supertape | 22kN | 36 g | solid or patterned | $3.50 solid, $5.50 patterned | distinction between this and "normal" unclear |
| Black Diamond | Nylon 11/16" | 22kN | 50.7g | solid or patterned | $3.50 solid, $5.50 patterned | distinction between this and Supertape unclear |
| Mil-Spec Nylon 9/16" tubular | 6.8kN | 18.6 g/m (0.20 oz/ft) | red | $0.22/ft (REI) | knot your own | |
| Blue Ridge | Mil-Spec Nylon 1" tubular | 18.1kN | 38.1 g/m (0.41 oz/ft) | purple, royal, green, citrine, olive, black, red | $0.30/ft (REI) | knot your own |
| Blue Water | Climb-Spec Super Tape Nylon 9/16" | 10.2kN (2299.4 lbf) | 26 g/m (0.28 oz/ft) | green, red, purple, blue, black | $0.22/ft (REI, not all colors) | knot your own |
| Blue Water | Climb-Spec Super Tape Nylon 1" | 18.667kN (4200 lbf) | not sewn | green, red, purple, blue, black, yellow, orange | $??/ft | knot your own |
| Blue Water | Climb-Spec Super Tape Nylon 2" | 30.2kN (6800 lbf) | 82 g/m (.89 oz/ft) | red, blue, black | $0.55/ft (REI, not all colors) | knot your own |
| Blue Water | Climb-Spec Runners 1" | 29kN | dunno | same as 1" Climb-Spec? | $2.95 (mgear) | Spectra thread |
| Blue Water | Titan Runners 9/16" | 27kN | dunno | unknown | $5.45 (REI) | Spectra thread |
| Trango | Ultratape 16mm (5/8") | 16kN | 31gm/meter | blue, red, yellow, orange, green, purple | $0.95/ft (Trango) | not sewn, takes a water knot |
| Trango | Ultratape 16mm (5/8") | 27kN | 40gm | blue, red, yellow, orange, green, purple | $0.95/ft (Trango) | |
| Trango | Tubular Nylon 1" | 18kN | 39gm/m | rust, gray, black, blue, red, gold, purple, teal | $0.35/ft (Trango) | |
| Wild Things | Spectra 1/2" | 23kN | 25.5g | red, blue, yellow (all with white) | $5.00 | |
| Wild Things | Nylon 11/16" | 21kN | 37.3g | turquoise, magenta, red, purple, yellow | $3.10 | |