Webbing belts for trousers (OT)

Usually the buckle folds the webbing back against itself and the friction between the surfaces aided by the tension from the waist creates the grip.

DerbyBorn wrote

Mine do, both a buckle and mostly a metal thing on the free end too.

With mine the metal buckle grips the free end as it goes thru the buckle and is closed.

The buckle has a full metal plate rather than the sort of thing a leather belt buckle has.

Presumably the buckle but its odd that more than one has no buckle so maybe you are talking about a different belt than I think you are.

Try a photo.

You might have the belt (or the buckles at least) inside-out. When threaded one way, the belt will slip through the buckles, threaded the other way, you should find that it grips.

Tim

DerbyBorn wrote in news:XnsA486814291A54TrainJPlantntlworldc@81.171.92.236:

What look like teeth are not teeth!

If they're like the ones on my hiking trousers, there are four possible ways to thread it, and only one will work.

There are presumably two slots. Thread the loose end through the further slot first. Make sure that when you thread it through the nearer slot, it bends back at an acute angle. If it's an obtuse angle, you have the buckle back-to-front, so unthread and start again.

That is a view from the side that should be closest to the wearer's body. Pass the belt over the serrated bar and thread the end though the slot beyond it. Fold the belt end back on the other side of the serrated bar and pass through the slot between that and the bar at the end of the body. Now pass the end of the belt between the end bar and the main part of the belt. Tension on the belt will cause the end bar to press the end of the belt against the main part of the belt and hold it there by friction.

Just found this video, which is far clearer than my instructions:

Yes, the Craghopper design is stupid. ;-)

I've just dug one of their belts out of my drawers and the only way to stop it slipping is to assemble it "wrong", with male part of the buckle curving away from you rather than matching the curve of the female part.

This distinctly different from my other webbing belts where the two haves both curve circumferentially.

Tim

Nightjar wrote in news:Ur2dnbfyVam snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

Thanks Nightjar.

DerbyBorn wrote in news:XnsA486BA02A2CE7TrainJPlantntlworldc@81.171.92.236:

I had been overcomplicating it.

Can't say I have ever had one with a buckle like that.

Mine all have metal buckles with a large rectangular metal flap hinged at one end that you close on the free end and which grips it.