How To Dampen the sound of hexes?

Hex's Have their place every now and then, and I don't mind them; however the sound they make drive me up the wall, usually leading me to leave them at home. Nothing ruins a nice alpine mountain vista, than the clank of the cow bells.

I was just wondering if any one has experimented with a way to try to dampen, reduce, or eliminate that awful sound. If any one was successful story please share because every one will thank you. Or if you tried this and failed I would like to hear that too.

Embrace the sound of safety.

There is a technique with the DMM Torque Nuts that you can use on approaches, but as it involves wrapping the sling around the hex, not so great for actually leading. I don't do it because I don't feel it's worth the time.

There's also the option of spacing them at opposite sides of each gear loops or with alpine draws between them to avoid them hitting each other. But then selecting them to place may be tricky. You could also surround them with draws on the same loop to push them together and give them less room to move.

I have yet to experiment with stuffing them with anything.

you can rig a sock to act as a slip cover for the hex. Insert the hex's sling into the mouth of the sock and fish it down to the toe area where you've created and little hole for the sling to emerge. The opening of the sock is snugged down over the hex when its on your rack, keeping the hex from clanging around. When you want to deploy, just slip the sock down the sling to expose the hex.

Kirtis wrote:Hex's Have their place every now and then, and I don't mind them; however the sound they make drive me up the wall, usually leading me to leave them at home. Nothing ruins a nice alpine mountain vista, than the clank of the cow bells. I was just wondering if any one has experimented with a way to try to dampen, reduce, or eliminate that awful sound. If any one was successful story please share because every one will thank you. Or if you tried this and failed I would like to hear that too.

No it really isn't a joke. I was just wondering if any one had tried putting some foam in the head of their hex's or something of that fashion to try tor reduce the noise.

Maybe hit them with a coat of tooldip?

Or, replace them with cams? Ha ha...

Little strips of Dynamat on the inside. Adds a little weight. Reduces the noise a little but deadens it a lot.

Why dampen the sound of bad-assery ? Wear you hexes proudly and embrace their sweet music as it echoes through the mountains

But how will I know if the gumbees are coming if the hexes are silent?

I suppose you could spray construction foam into the core of wired hexes. Definitely don't let that stuff near your soft goods.

Ryan7crew wrote:But how will I know if the gumbees are coming if the hexes are silent?

Hot glue a wine cork in the middle of the hex. It will make it not resonate as much.

leave them in your closet

Expanding spray foam inside of the hex

put them in your backpack. Or just imagine this instead.

It's fine to ring them, as long as you're butt naked and pulling roofs on horizontal jugs, you can even add a rigid stem to widen the melody.

let em ring, They scare bears and make the vultures buzzing me think twice.
As far as I see this is a non issue a few clanks VS the city noise is not even close. I only carry the 7-10 though at the most, how many you hauling?

Great idea. Someone needs to invent something like a golf club headcover, but for hexes.

"Hats for bats. Keep bats warm."

Ryan7crew wrote:But how will I know if the gumbees are coming if the hexes are silent?