I've gotta agree with ArborJockey on that stuff.
And besides that, selling gear on Ebay is cool, but don't BUY your biners and such there!!! Buy NEW!! I bought a saw on Ebay, but that's another story, and it's workin beautifully, but I had to put almost $150 into it to get it there.
If you're buying safety equipment on Ebay, you don't know it's history. If you've got the money (and you must, if you bought that reel thing), buy your gear new and start fresh.
Somehow you posted three redundant posts. You can click "edit" and delete the ones which are unnecessary.
Are the black locking gates on those red biners plastic or metal? I'd be inclined to shy away from plastic biner components.
And I can't blame your wife, that's a pretty keyring alright!
The HUGE autolocker is also used with ladder rungs.
(NG, the "biner" thing is only up at that conference center. Incidentally, I don't think I'll ever be able to stop saying "biner"... it just rolls off the tongue so easily!)
To you other folks, say, are auto-locking snaps allowable as far as the standards go? They type that's attatched to Aerial's fall-arresting lanyard.
Seems they should be, since they take a scissor type squeezing action to open both mechanisms.
Maybe Danny knows?