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outward force on cams when loaded	14-Jun-2015 At 12:07:00 PM	lightfoot
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I was out climbing in the youyangs the other day on 'things that go bump in the night' at nightfall pinnacles which tackles a short and very sharp loose and hollow exfoliation flake. In placing cams behind the flake I was wondering the relationship between downward forces and outward forces on the cam lobes, so I could gauge the likelihood that IF I fell would the cam pop the flake off. After a little googling I found this, I'm no mathematician but the simple idea that the outward force is 2 x the downward force seems easy to understand. http://www.vainokodas.com/climbing/cams.html In answer I would say that most likely I would have popped the flake off!

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