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Re: [patto] totem cams now available?:
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mheyman
Jul 17, 2010, 3:40 PM
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billcoe_ wrote: The huge issue I see, is what made Aliens so great was that the head was soft and would flop easily to any direction where a placement was good. Wild Country Zeros have that function
That is as much a liability as strength. It makes them harder to place and at least in small sizes like Zeros more likely to get stuck.
patto wrote: How many cams do you know can do this? ...These cams have capabilities that no other cam has.
Place them using only two cams? If you do this the strength is halved and you can do this with most traditional four cam units. (I would not consider Link Cams traditional.)
Place them in flairs? I think we need to fully understand the camming angle, application of force and the tradeoffs these entail before we consider this true and entirely beneficial. Totem certainly hasn’t explained much on their web site.
That said I’ll volunteer to order the full set if and take one if the others pay up front including about $5 for packing and reshipping (unless they are local).
For $80 -I'll wait. And I'm a serious gear whore."" These are mutually exclusive statements!
(This post was edited by mheyman on Jul 17, 2010, 9:11 PM)
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Post edited by mheyman
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