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hillbillywannabe
May 11, 2005, 12:20 PM
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why do some people put the toothbrush on the chalk bag?
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treehugger
May 11, 2005, 12:22 PM
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Because sometimes you really gotta brush.
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duality4569
May 11, 2005, 12:35 PM
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To clean the chalk off holds to minimize the environmental impact and to make the holds "grippier"
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keinangst
May 11, 2005, 12:42 PM
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That's pretty common around here. In fact, the toothbrush was invented in Alabama.
Otherwise, it would have been called the "teethbrush".
the more you know...
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wingnut
May 11, 2005, 12:42 PM
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to clean caked useless chalk of holds.
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overlord
May 11, 2005, 1:33 PM
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and just in case you forgot your "normal" one at home :twisted:
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altelis
May 11, 2005, 2:45 PM
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don't laugh---two years ago i spent my january in jtree, and couldn't find my toothbrush. i looked everywhere. well, thank god, eventually i found it. proceeded to brush. finished brushing. next morning, i found my toothbrush. yep, not the same one i just brushed my teach with....i thought that my baking soda tooth paste was grittier than usual.... :oops:
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hillbillywannabe
May 11, 2005, 3:37 PM
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haha i knew there was a reason it was called a tooth brush and not a chalk brush :P
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damon99
May 13, 2005, 6:19 AM
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wait a minute... do yuo mean that funny lookin object is for your teeth? ewww.. :roll:
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rocknan
Oct 17, 2008, 11:14 PM
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i tried the chalk-caked holds, it works. but rubber-caked ones, it failed
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Maddhatter
Oct 18, 2008, 12:20 AM
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I use one that looks like a tooth brush but has brass bristles. Works great. You can pick them up at any hardware store there with the welding brushes.
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flatlanderAB
Oct 18, 2008, 12:30 AM
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Try a wire brush on them works real good you betcha ;) just make sure its brass.
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Valarc
Oct 18, 2008, 1:19 AM
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wire brush??? brass or not, i seen lots of damage on sandstone holds from wire brushing. just say no to wire!
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sungam
Oct 18, 2008, 1:28 AM
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I'm with Valarc on this one, avoid using wire brushes whenever possible.
No one else catch the dates on this one, though?
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climbingtrash
Oct 18, 2008, 1:57 AM
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Wire brushes will also polish limestone and granite.
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flatlanderAB
Oct 18, 2008, 2:03 AM
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I am not talking about using it on sandstone. Limestone or granite are pretty hard rock and a new brass brush gets old in no time without doing anything to the rock. If you are so concerned about damaging the rock. DON'T CLIMB ON IT and DON'T BOLT IT.
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clc
Oct 18, 2008, 2:03 AM
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new route setting on west coast like squamish require metal brushes and lots of them. little toothbrushes at stupidly small though.
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climbingtrash
Oct 18, 2008, 3:04 AM
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Yeah, putting up new routes is a completely different story. We use an assortment of big brushes, both wire and plastic bristled...toilet brushes work pretty good on new sandstone cracks. 
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rocknan
Oct 18, 2008, 5:45 AM
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yeah, it's happy to climb, so just climb for happiness and leave and leave only happiness there.
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donald949
Oct 19, 2008, 3:59 PM
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sungam wrote: I'm with Valarc on this one, avoid using wire brushes whenever possible. No one else catch the dates on this one, though?
Trying to enlighten - Fail.
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armsrforclimbing
Oct 19, 2008, 4:32 PM
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for to brusha the teeth
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Maddhatter
Oct 19, 2008, 5:19 PM
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Valarc wrote: wire brush??? brass or not, i seen lots of damage on sandstone holds from wire brushing. just say no to wire!
You will do far more harm rubbing away with a soft brush then you will with a easy pass with a wire brush.
Yes you have to be easy with a wire brush but if you don't over do it they do a very good job on packed in chalk or rubber. I find a normal tooth brush worthless for cleaning holds.
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sbaclimber
Oct 20, 2008, 7:14 AM
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I have the feeling that many of you aren't familiar with many different types of rock.
Like the answer to most other questions....."it depends" 
Saying things like...
In reply to: Limestone or granite are pretty hard rock
Basically, it comes down to two things:
1) what do you want to clean off?
2) and how hard is the rock?
If you just want to clean off some chalk, then *generally* a plastic (not neccessarily a soft plastic) brush is sufficient, and not likely to damange the rock. Hence, the toothbrush.
If you are cleaning lichen off of hard granite or basalt, then you can forget plastic, only metal is going to do you any good (although, I have heard bleach works well too.... ). If you need to get lichen off of soft limestone, and you don't want to damage the rock, you are pretty much SOL
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fatoomchk
Oct 20, 2008, 8:18 AM
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Whilst carefully making no statement about firearms in the rock-climbing environment (there are other threads for that...) I will say that I use a Kleen-Bore Nylon Bristle Gun brush. Way stiffer than a toothbrush, way less damaging than a metal bristle brush.
It works where I climb and boulder for removing chalk deposits.
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altelis
Oct 20, 2008, 12:25 PM
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Q: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in [insert favorite white-trash // redneck // hillbilly infested state here]?
A: Otherwise it would've been called a teeth-brush!!!!!!!!!
***Ps, Jung- my dad (the dentist, so he should know about these things, right?) always told the joke as "west virginia"- i suppose the closest target to DC.....
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