Metolius Resling Service

Just got my cams back from Metolius, and they look friggin amazing! It's like they practically chromed them. $3 each for complete cleaning and new slings and they turned them around in 3 days (then 5 days of shipping) Total bill for 6 tcu's with shipping home - $28!. And they're all updated to the nice new "Monster" webbing (36% Dyneema / 64% Nylon).

Amazing service.

Had all 10 of mine done a couple years a go and had the same reaction you did.

Great service at a great price!

Larry S wrote:Total bill for 6 tcu's with shipping home - $28!. And they're all updated to the nice new "Monster" webbing (36% Dyneema / 64% Nylon).

I hope your TCUs don't end up looking like mine after a short fall:

Dyneema sling on Metolius dual-stem cam is a terrible idea.

reboot wrote: I hope your TCUs don't end up looking like mine after a short fall: Dyneema sling on Metolius dual-stem cam is a terrible idea.

you're upset because you fell on them and now they look used?

frankstoneline wrote: you're upset because you fell on them and now they look used?

No, I'm upset b/c the old nylon slings worked much better than the skinny dynemma slings. I've had the yellow TCU on the right for way longer and the frame is still straight (same w/ a retired blue TCU that has sustained so many falls that the lobes are uselessly mangled). Whereas the frame on all of my TCU/4CU w/ the dynemma slings (that I've used far less) are jacked.

Of course, one wouldn't know the difference if one never falls on their gear, which is why noobs everywhere think ultralight 4CU/TCU is great.

reboot wrote: No, I'm upset b/c the old nylon slings worked much better than the skinny dynemma slings. I've had the yellow TCU on the right for way longer and the frame is still straight (same w/ a retired blue TCU that has sustained so many falls that the lobes are uselessly mangled). Whereas the frame on all of my TCU/4CU w/ the dynemma slings (that I've used far less) are jacked. Of course, one wouldn't know the difference if one never falls on their gear, which is why noobs everywhere think ultralight 4CU/TCU is great.

Almost all my metolius stuff is the era of the nylon sling with black lines, some of it has deformed from falls, some has stayed relatively normal. I guess I never noticed the difference in deformation between old and new.

reboot wrote: I hope your TCUs don't end up looking like mine after a short fall: Dyneema sling on Metolius dual-stem cam is a terrible idea.

ive owned both the old and new style TCUs, PCs

IMO its not just the sling, as ive fallen on my blue UL TCU enough times and it hasnt seriously deformed yet ...

when metolius cut the weight of those cams, the durability went down IMO

ive seen whippers on a gray old TCU that has come out unscathed ... while i blew out apart a purple UL TCU in the exact same placement (the old gray and new purple are similar sizes) ...

that said any cams with a thinner sling will have more deformation, as evidenced by the kinked wire loops on aliens, zeros, etc which i have taken repeated whippers on

which is why i believe BD still went with a thicker nylon sling for the current camalots

reboot wrote: I hope your TCUs don't end up looking like mine after a short fall: Dyneema sling on Metolius dual-stem cam is a terrible idea.

The same thing happens on the fatcams with nylon slings. They still work fine.

Pretty sure Mountain Tools will sew a reinforced open loop for you. And they don't give you any crap about your cams being too old to resling or cut your trigger wires before sending them back.

I've used them for Tri-Cams and WC Friends and have really been satisfied.

mountaintools.com/cat/rclim…

I've used both MtnTools (for Tricams) and Metolius (for TCUs) for reslinging. Both did a great job. Metolius buffed and lubed my 10-15 year-old cams to perfection and nary a word about them being too old or trashed. I know that some folks have had their cams rejected, but I wonder about the typicality of that experience. And the price is right -- as the OP points out.

reboot wrote: No, I'm upset b/c the old nylon slings worked much better than the skinny dynemma slings. I've had the yellow TCU on the right for way longer and the frame is still straight (same w/ a retired blue TCU that has sustained so many falls that the lobes are uselessly mangled). Whereas the frame on all of my TCU/4CU w/ the dynemma slings (that I've used far less) are jacked. Of course, one wouldn't know the difference if one never falls on their gear, which is why noobs everywhere think ultralight 4CU/TCU is great.

Not my experience, taken only couple big (10-15 foot) falls on my metolious gear. No complaints.

this was definitely my reaction to getting back my TCUs from reslinging.

I'll add to the praise. I had the same reaction when I received my cams back from Metolius.

It's practically worth the price just to have that shiny almost new look back. And, I have no idea why anyone would climb on slings older than the recommended life span. $3/cam every 5ish years for the confidence that your slings are full strength again...it's a no-brainer IMO.

A word of caution about Mtn Tools-had my cams reslung recently with longer slings. First I called them and confirmed that they would do the resling as described-they agreed, I mailed them in with a detailed note, got the cams back with wrong slings. On the phone they admitted to making a mistake but then really tried to talk me out of repairing their mistake, I would not budge and sent the cams back in. At this time I had a trip coming up, but they assured that I would get the cams within 8 days. I called back 4 business days later-they have not touched them yet. They were finally on fedex truck two days before my trip, but they send them to a wrong address. Eventually they called fedex and had them left on my front door for lack of other options which did not make me happy having a box of 15 cams sitting there. It all turned out well in the end,after 3 weeks, but I did have to pay shipping 4 ways $100 worth of and they refused to work with me on covering a part of that. It seems that their process or communication needs some work. Hopefully the actual resling was done more professionally than the rest of the process since I have to climb on the things now.

I just had 5 cams reslung at Ragged Mountain Equipment in Bartlett, NH. Cost $6 each. The slings were a bar tacked loop about 4-5" long. Turn around time from when I dropped them off until they were done was a week on the nose.

Had sent my all my cams to be reslung in 2009.
Metolius cleaned, tumbled, lubed and restitched all my cams. They gave me up to date tracking info as soo as they were out the door.
BD reslung the cams only no tracking info...
Ragged's prices are competitive to BD and Metolius.
Psif shipping from Canada, go expedite or better so the shipping includes the brokerage fees. There's no duty on climbing gear, but brokerage can cost quite abit.

reboot wrote:Dyneema sling on Metolius dual-stem cam is a terrible idea.

This is vaguely relevant

It isn't talking about metolius or even double stem but i still think it is the similar enough.

Wired Bliss did a great job for me recently. $5 per resling, any brand. They also do new trigger wires for $5, which look better than the originals. Top notch work and easy to work with in my experience.

Jack Mullen wrote: This is vaguely relevant It isn't talking about metolius or even double stem but i still think it is the similar enough.

The cross bar on Metolius U-Stem cam keeps the cable from collapsing the way the C4 thumbloop does.

Killing In The Name Of wrote: Didn't Wired Bliss do reslinging, too? I've got cams from several different companies to get worked on, I'd like to send them all to the same place. I heard Metolius only works on their stuff...

I just sent a whole mess of cams to Michael at Wired Bliss and am super psyched about how they came out. The new slings are top notch, color-matched to the cams, and the cams themselves look like they got a quick once-over cleaning as well. The turn around was quick and he was easy to work with, responding to both my emails and voicemails when I had questions. It's great that Metolius offers the re-slinging, but my rack is a collection of misfit cams from all over the place and I needed new slings are at least 4 different brands. Wired Bliss is the way to go, do it if only to support a small, dedicated, locally-based climbing operation!

Another metolius cam resling testimonial. I sent 14 cams (power & tcu's) dated '01-'05 back to Bend, OR for a re-sling. 3 weeks later I received 13 near brand new looking cams with brand new slings dated '20, 1 brand new size 0 power cam from '17 stock and the original 0 PC (unslung) which is 15 years old now! They billed me $54...which included 13 reslings, 1 rewire, the  brand new size 0 cam which they valued at $35 (free of charge).

Very happy with them all! I took the lot for a test run on my hardest lead to date with my SP belaying. I hung all over it figuring out the beta and took 1 fall -- the cams performed admirably and it was great having full confidence in my gear! Fantastic company.