Re-slinging rigid stem cams, am I gonna die?...

From a practical standpoint, your best option is to put the cams in an old shoe box with some crumpled paper and mail them off to Mountain Tools, in Carmel, CA.

I love the solutions shown here, don't get me wrong! Especially the basket hitch.

But the cams will be more usable and it will be cheaper for Mountain Tools to just sew some very nice, strong, color-coded slings on your Friends for ~$4 a pop, and they'll be *better* than new.

Mountain tools works pretty fast, and doesn't care how old your cams are.

(I recently got an old, rigid #3. It's cool how amazingly light they are!)

wivanoff wrote:Good idea.

I would have to disagree - bad idea.

Sure, you know what you're doing, but it's not an idea I'd like to see get much airplay as it's just got way too much fuckup potential in wrong or unaware hands.

As for reslinging the cams - I'd say have Mountain Tools or someone else sling the ends and then put a longer loop of tech cord through the front hole up by the cam lobes so that when the cam is in a horizontal you can clip either both or just the cord.

Healyje has the best point so far here. I believe all the "old timers" considered it a significant upgrade to string the cord up front to eliminate all kinds of bad torquing scenarios across the long weak slot in the not-so-rigid stem. Suerte o muerte!

Weekend Warrior wrote:I still use rigid and old "flexible" friends, and also have a bunch of earlier gen C4 camalots that needed reslinging. Mountain Tools did a first class job reslinging all of them, and it was cheap and quick. mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/cam…

How did Mountain Tools resling your rigid friends? I am considering sending the four that I have to them. Have you gotten your wires re done with them too?