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Some old pins -

The good Dr

4-Aug-2014
2:50:56 PM

Pulled these couple of dodgy pins on the weekend from Warmonger at Araps.

The angle everyone relies on to stop hitting the belay ledge. This ended up being pretty loose and even though "fully" embeded it was in a flare and only had contact with the end couple of cm of the pin (you can see it if you look closely).

The leeper was a bit below the angle, and of its condition ... well, enough said! Fortunately the leeper was embeded in a perfect cam placement (0.2 X4 camelot works really well) high enough to be useful, so replacement fixed gear was not needed.

Take care out there as this type of evil can be well hidden from view and difficult to assess by just looking at the gear. Just immediately assume it is dodgy!!

kieranl

4-Aug-2014
3:33:22 PM

So that was the tapping that was going on when I walked past the other evening. Some pretty tough rats been at work on that leeper. Good job.

Duang Daunk

4-Aug-2014
6:07:32 PM

On 4/08/2014 The good Dr wrote:
>Pulled these couple of dodgy pins on the weekend from Warmonger at Araps.
>
>The angle everyone relies on to stop hitting the belay ledge. This ended
>up being pretty loose and even though "fully" embeded it was in a flare
>and only had contact with the end couple of cm of the pin (you can see
>it if you look closely).
>
>The leeper was a bit below the angle, and of its condition ... well, enough
>said! Fortunately the leeper was embeded in a perfect cam placement (0.2
>X4 camelot works really well) high enough to be useful, so replacement
>fixed gear was not needed.
>
>Take care out there as this type of evil can be well hidden from view
>and difficult to assess by just looking at the gear. Just immediately assume
>it is dodgy!!

If they are going cheap, then macca will probably take them, to reuse as ideal pro on doggie.
You can probably charge him more for an associated history sheet about them to accompany them.

The good Dr

4-Aug-2014
6:48:23 PM

I can prob arrange to get them personally monogrammed by the FAA and FFA of the route if he wants as well.

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