Cam comparison tool

A while ago, I made a tool to help you compare cams and put together a cogent rack.

You can find that tool here: https://cam-parison.com/.  It visualizes the effective ranges cams.  It looks like this:

For me, its really useful when I'm trying to see how a new piece of gear would fit into my rack.

I have made a couple of updates to the page that I thought might be useful to people:

1. You can now share your rack!  For example, this is my rack.  After you have chosen your cams, you can click the "Share" button to get a url to show others your rack!
2. Expansion is visualized through the bars.  There are white lines at 10% and 60% of the range, so you can get an idea of what the usable range is.  If you click "More Options" and hover over the "Expansion" button, there's a more detailed explanation.

Please let me know what you think, or share your rack!

Bump... saving to review for my cams at a later date.

Also, can you add pre-C4 BD cams?

Awesome!! Thank you!

Great job! Thanks...

matt carpenter wrote: 
Also, can you add pre-C4 BD cams?

ditto this.. (and also add Metolius Powercam sizes #9 and 10)

They changed the range for the same numbers so its a little confusing  
The old Camalot 4.5 is bigger than the new 5 for example.

Great work though. thanks for sharing. Super useful tool!

Great url. As others said please add older cams including TCU 000

great work! Thanks! Wayyyy better than my crappy excel file I created years ago!

I’ve referenced the site from time to time and it is useful, thank you. Would you be open to adding big-bros? Thanks!

I'm having some trouble finding published ranges for these older cams.  Anybody know the min and max expansions for these cams?

• pre-C4 BD
• Metolius Powercam sizes #9 and 10
• TCU 000

https://weighmyrack.com/Cam/Metolius-Ultralight-TCU-000

Same as pre ultralight one

Thanks. I like Metolius in the smaller range so it was great to compare to the Camalot C4s.

I was surprised to see the 0.75 C4 overlap a bit with the orange Metolius mastercam! I have no excuse not to try those horrible ringlocks now!!!

I've touted enough times but I'll give it another go:
http://steimann.li/

If you look at the chart I think it makes sense to carry BD and totem on climbs because of the sizing differences

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FLJ7TIfB8de7z7TwlLpKbEzMJgpCRXJDGWiz1apmgPg/edit?usp=sharing

Here's another one for anyone interested. 

Andy Lei wrote: I'm having some trouble finding published ranges for these older cams.  Anybody know the min and max expansions for these cams?

• pre-C4 BD
• Metolius Powercam sizes #9 and 10
• TCU 000

Hey Andy -

Some links that may have additional data to help

http://www.steimann.li/climbing/slcd.html
http://alanblanchflower.co.uk/climbing/cams.php
http://dawnalguard.com/tradgirl/climbing_faq/pro_sizechart_active.htm
http://www.clydesoles.com/Front/Camsbrand.html (check out the "Gone but not forgotten section")

From an old metolius website for powercams

And for original CCH Aliens:
https://www.mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/cams/cchalienscom.htm
https://www.mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/cams/cchaliens_hybrid.htm

Psyched about the updates, keep up the great work!

Andy Lei wrote: A while ago, I made a tool to help you compare cams and put together a cogent rack.

You can find that tool here: https://cam-parison.com/.

Andy, among several similar products, yours seems to be the easiest to navigate through but you do need to add those cams that are missing, for example site 7 and 8 DMM Dragons, and new friends...

Looking forward to seeing an updated cam-parison sometime soon :)

lovin this!!

Andy I really like your tool.Well done. It 's great way to visualize the Cam ranges. Can you add to your database older cams, like the original rigid stem Friends and some of the other out of production cams? I see the old Aliens specs have been posted, cool!

Dan Allard wrote:

Hey Andy -

Some links that may have additional data to help

http://www.clydesoles.com/Front/Camsbrand.html (check out the "Gone but not forgotten section")

Psyched about the updates, keep up the great work!

Dan.. I just browsed through those links.. nice! especially the "Gone but not forgotten section" It would be cool if Andy could incorporate that data as well for us old fogies that still climb with legacy gear.

This is great! Thanks for the work you put in to this!

Super sick man! Works great. A couple features I thought of.

1. Adding Tango Big Bros. :)
2. Possibly adding X & Y axis cross-hairs with a value readout. Similar to a lot of stock market charts. (See Image Below)