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SLCDs: Which ones and why? 12-Dec-2005 At 10:50:14 PM Lee

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I have loved my years with the tech friend's, its only because the right price?for some new camalots
came along that I'm parting ways( see gear sales my tech friends + some aliens).
Something worth mentioning about the 'weight to range' thing over a set of cams(which may have already
been mentioned) is that although a range of cams may be lighter by offering more range per cam and
hence not needing as many cams is your down one peice of gear for the same weight.

One thing I find frustrating about all but the BD( and to a lesser extent the larger aliens that have the
swaging on all 4 trigger cables) cams is there ablity in a placement that opens to the back to have 1 set/
side's of lobes flip over leaving the trigger useless and the use of a nut tool inevitable, almost imposible
with camalots.
Ahh DMM(/Wild contry) they buy there lobes from WC so still the best? cam angle 13.75 degree's,
basically a dual stem version not my preffered set up for most oz conditions ie not so many vertical
splitters and more pockets and weird flakes that really are better with the flexibility of a single stem cam,
have seen so many dual stem cams (HB metolius, old BD etc) placed in pockets and never come out
quite the same, guess that depends how you climb though and whether you often fall or aid on your gear
or it is
there more as 'protection' in case you fall in which case they seem to operate really well for ever.
#1 Camalot C4+C3's
tech friends Best of the Rest