Anyone know the details of making sawed angles?
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I need to make some sawed angles for a trip in may and I'm not sure what length to cut them. Also what size pitons/baby angles would you recomend for making sawed angles? |
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One, if I had to guess you want them for the Shield. If so, go easy on the hammer since it's gone clean about 20 yrs. ago. I hear about people still nailing on sections that I climbed pretty easily with TCUs just because they freaked with the exposure. Try to score some offset cams and you'll be happy. OK, enough preaching. |
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I'm considering several walls in Yosemite. Planning on clean aid but I'm still going to take the the gear it calls for in the the yosemite big wall book. |
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From my buddy who climbed Mescalito with me last summer: |
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I don't know how many you'll need, but you may want to take more than one of each size, since the dimension of the pin is going to be different depending on where you chop it. Say, one where you chop it about 1/3 down and another about 1/2. If you have just one size and it's not quite right, you may have problems. |
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I used a hack saw. Easy as pie. |
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Even easier - just loan your pins to Chris and he'll give 'em back sawed off. |
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I used a caborundum (?) blade on a Skil saw and cut only 1/3 off of them. I cut a few in half but they are way too short. |
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Ha! There we go, I actually used my index. |
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How important is it to deburr the sawed-off angle? I can easily get to a saw and vise but not to a full shop, |
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mark55401 wrote: How important is it to deburr the sawed-off angle? I can easily get to a saw and vise but not to a full shop, Not important at all save for making sure that there's not burs that will catch webbing or clothing and cause it to fray. If you don't debur the cut edge, the rock will take care of that for you. |
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Certainly not necessary- |