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climbguy__1
Feb 28, 2008, 4:33 PM
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I forgot to answer the friction question. Do what I suggested above. I have made incredibly lage batches of such a mixture for spraying on a commercial gym before and it does make great, long lasting texture. The only thing is that you would have to spread it by hand...use a popsicle stick and make sure its even, cause once it dries, thats it man. If there are extra lumps or blems, you can use a sander to get rid of them.
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photoguy190
Feb 28, 2008, 4:39 PM
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I go to school in Nebraska none of us are boulders and we want to stay strong at crack climbing that is why it is worth it to us, we don't want to make it screw on cause that would set a precedent and then more screw ons would go up and the wall would take a beating routes don't stay very long. Why would you make it out of 4x4 what is the benefit of the extra material. Thanks for you input I do want it, just realize we aren't you typical boulders we are just stuck in Nebraska and this is "ALL" we got.
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climbguy__1
Feb 28, 2008, 4:56 PM
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One of mu buddy's owns a gym and he says the same thing about screw ons. I just done see the logic there. Go around once a year and fill in the little tiny holes with some wood glue if its really a concern.
I would use 4X4s becaue you can shape the crack better to simulate what you would come accross in the "real world". Very seldom do we get those beautiful splitter cracks like Indian Creek. I think that 4X4's would be a little stronger in the long term too. You could sand them down and make them all rounded and sexy.
I still say that screw on is the way to do it...you could have a hand crack one week, a finger crack the next, and an off width the following.....Im sure you get the point.
I use screw on holds all the time. I figure, so what if I have to replace a piece of plywood once every 15 years ;)
Good luck, I think you should post when your creation is done. It only took me one night to throw together that huge triangle feature. It goes quick once you are into it.
Peace
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mr_krinkle
Feb 28, 2008, 5:34 PM
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At the gym I climb at they put up a feature a few months ago. They bolted a backing board to the wall (not sure what kind) then screwed the feature to the backing board so they didn't screw the wall (pun intended).
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photoguy190
Feb 28, 2008, 6:04 PM
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yea thats what I think I'm going to do, was it hard to put up the backing board
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jeffvoigt
Mar 26, 2008, 8:41 PM
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I used to work at a gym and we made features like this. A couple of them looked exactly like the ones in the photo, but we had some that were 6 feet tall by 4 feet wide and stuck out from the wall about 2 feet. These things were rad because you could put up three or four of them on a flat wall and make mini roofs, ledges small corners and short hand cracks if you positioned them correctly!
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