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diplodocus
Feb 24, 2003, 3:33 AM
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about to start aid climbing, do your nuts and hexes often get terribly wedged into cracks when you stand on them with etrier? how do you avoid it?
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flamer
Feb 24, 2003, 3:56 AM
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Not really....The art of proper placement cannot be overstated...grasshopper! :)
josh
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copperhead
Feb 24, 2003, 3:57 AM
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Use a hammer and nut tool to remove them.
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apollodorus
Feb 24, 2003, 4:02 AM
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You avoid it by having the Master Cleaner clean up your fixed gear mess. He'll have a mighty thin cleaning tool, and the ability to work it. The super tiny stoppers/brasses will slow him down long enough for you to enjoy your paperback book, or DVD on battery power.
Many aid pitches are as hard to clean as they are to lead.
And you can't just leave the gear, because you'll run out of pieces up higher.
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wallrat
Mar 10, 2003, 3:34 AM
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One of my favorite wall tools was an old ice hammer. I ground the pick flat on both the bottom and end. It was the real deal for pulling recalcitrant nuts. Put the pick under the nut, and lever away. I wouldn't reccomend this for the nuts you use on your free rack, but it definately works. Also, the hammer was a bit light, but all in all it worked great.
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socalclimber
Mar 10, 2003, 12:53 PM
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Yeah, I have been pondering getting a small light weight tac hammer or some such device for cleaning the odd stuck brass nut. I know people who use them in Zion all the time!
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passthepitonspete
Mar 10, 2003, 2:52 PM
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The hotties comment frequently [and might I add quite "favourably"] about my Long Dong.
Their curiosity piqued, the more diabolical ones draw nigh for a closer inspection of Dr. Piton's equipment.
At which point their desire turns to horror, and they exclaim,
"Holy frig, Pete! The bottom of your nuts are bashed to hell!"
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apollodorus
Mar 11, 2003, 10:59 AM
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Hey Wallrat, I have an old Chouinard Ice Hammer that I cut the pick down to make a mini-Yosemite hammer. I ground a little hook in to the end of the pick, like the A5 hammer had. It works killer for yanking pins out. I just use a cleaning tool on the stoppers, or maybe hit it with the hammer.
I used to have a Chouinard rock hammer, which had a long, drooping pick about 8 inches long. It was like an ice hammer that had never had the pick sharpened, or teeth ground in. It was pretty silly. But, you could wail away at stuck pieces.
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beyond_gravity
Mar 14, 2003, 3:44 AM
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I have a small cresent wrench from my bike kit on 3mm cord that I use to whack out nuts. It works really well.
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diplodocus
Mar 15, 2003, 3:09 AM
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Hi beyond gravity,
do you have a pic of that crescent wrench? Sounds like a good alternative. Tks for the tip.
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beyond_gravity
Mar 15, 2003, 8:11 PM
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diplodocus,
any hardware store will sell a crescent wrench. It's probably just our terminology. It’s just one of those adjustable wrenches. I’m sure you have one in your toolbox at home. Most of them have a hole on the end, just thread some cord threw it. Of course for wall climbing you wouldn’t need one because you would have a nut tool and wall hammer. However if climbing trad or just anytime you don’t need to hammer it works great.
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