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kick ass web site-history of cams
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:10 pm
by RRO
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:16 pm
by Saxman
SWEET!
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:49 pm
by Saxman
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:24 pm
by Horatio Felacio
you're a fucking faggot. "ooohh! history of cams! yay! i can sit on my ding-dong collection while reading about old shitty gear! matt massey is soooo cool!"
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:29 pm
by Saxman
Looks like somone is mad because their ass is now too big for a #6 Camalot and they don't have any of those jumbo cams to play with.
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:58 pm
by ynot
sorta like nitro glycerin. just goes off without warning.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:03 am
by L K Day
I still have some of that shit! And I'm not kidding. My first cam was one of those weird Lowe Split Cam monstrosities. I carried that piece of crap quite a bit, placed it maybe once or twice, and then threw it in the gear box. My first set of Friends used circlips to hold the cams on the axels. I remember argueing with the guy who convinced me that I had to have them about the circlips. I just didn't believe this was a reliable way to secure the cams on the axels, but after borrowing a set of three, I had to have them. Even with the questionable circlips and the unbelievable expensive price of $17.50 each. Later they were recalled, then returned with lock nuts on the axels. One of my pals had access to the engineering lab at U.C. Berkeley, so he bought proper steel rod stock, aluminum bar stock, spring wire, etc. and made his own bootleg friends.
Of the stuff in the nut section, I remember the Forrest Titons as really worthless units. I have a Dolt nut, one of those nylon chock things, and even a Peck Cracker. Peckers we called them. Well, actually, I got two Peckers.