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Bolts at Buffalo 11-Jan-2019 At 12:16:21 PM bigchris
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On 11-Jan-2019 One Day Hero wrote:
>Chris, the ones with a full length sleeve are generally referred to as
>dynabolts, the ones with the short sleeve down at the end are referred
>to as trubolts (as in "true 10mm bolt in 10mm hole").
>
>Dynabolts are easy to get out. Remove nut and hanger, grab the bit of
>protruding sleeve with thin-nose vice-grips, gently tap shaft to disengage
>cone, pull sleeve then shaft out.
>
>Trubolts are a bit more complicated and require a drill and a couple of
>custom tools. You can get them in about 15 mins once everything is dialed
>in. There are a bunch of excellent american youtube tutorials up.
>
>If you are going to grind off and tap them in, grind first then tap........obvious
>as soon as you think about it.
>
>Thanks for cleaning up.

Yeah no probs. I'm basically a giant hack crack climber so I'm figuring all of this shit out as I go. The good thing is, apart from Profanities, is that none of them are on actual climbs so im not too stressed about making a mess and they're all in weird spot that no one would notice.

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