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skinner
May 23, 2009, 12:29 AM
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I still have a set of smc camlocks (on the fireplace mantle), the wired ones sucked! You had to use a LA and a hammer to give them a few taps and lock them in place. More often then not, you'd be half way up a pitch, go to clear your rope, and they'd all fall out. The original self cleaning pro those were.
Titons.. ermmm another *attempt* at clean pro. carried a few for a while (waaaay back), the only one I placed is probably still there. I drove it into the intersection of a vertical/horizontal mud-filled crack. It was certainly bomber.. but there is no possible way to clean a placement like that. One good Titons, where all Titons should go.
If you want some vintage pro that still works and would be an asset to any modern rack, get your hands on some MOACs
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ford4x4
May 23, 2009, 12:47 AM
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I have no idea what MOacs are....
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bill413
May 23, 2009, 12:50 AM
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skinner wrote: I still have a set of smc camlocks (on the fireplace mantle), the wired ones sucked! You had to use a LA and a hammer to give them a few taps and lock them in place. More often then not, you'd be half way up a pitch, go to clear your rope, and they'd all fall out. The original self cleaning pro those were.
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adatesman
May 23, 2009, 12:51 AM
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ford4x4
May 23, 2009, 12:59 AM
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i dont have any of those, but i do have some old saddle wedges! talk about a pain to clean....
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salamanizer
May 23, 2009, 1:26 AM
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From my personal collection...
Forrest Titons # 1-10
Forrest nuts and copperheads.
A somewhat rare Forrest chimney chock.
Various hand forged (swiss) pitons and early versions of a carabiner.
Oldschool hooks, Clog & CMI
Camp saddlewedges.
10th mountain division U.S. military pitons.
Bivos Banditos (an early 80's version of a cam not long on the market)
Edited to add:
Almost forgot!
A MOAC nut.
That's enough for now...
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ford4x4
May 23, 2009, 2:32 AM
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im green with envy sal, i wish i had some of those to play around with!
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skinner
May 23, 2009, 5:33 AM
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salamanizer wrote: From my personal collection... Various hand forged (swiss) pitons and early versions of a carabiner.
Think I just saw these on ST ?
salamanizer wrote: Oldschool hooks, Clog & CMI
That hook on the left looks suspiciously like the Stubi that is still available today.
(looking at one in my hand right now)
salamanizer wrote: 10th mountain division U.S. military pitons.
I love these things and wish they still made them, I've left a ton of the old military ring pitons
(back when you could still buy them from the army surplus store) all over the Canadian Rockies
descending alpine routes. I saw a box of 400 of the vertical military pitons on Ebay, couldn't find
anyone who wanted to go in on them with me and figured the shipping would probably kill me.
salamanizer wrote: Edited to add: Almost forgot! A MOAC nut.
Ahhh... there it is, my favorite nut that I still use to this day. No idea what it is about these, but
you just toss them in the general direction of the rock and they stick. Awesome piece for anchors.
salamanizer wrote: That's enough for now...
Not really 
Nice collection salamanizer , I'm a gear whore myself, love picking up vintage gear when I can.
Hrmm.. spell check keeps wanting to change salamanize..
-salamander
-womanizer
-humanizer
-Americanize
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