Cleaning cams

[Lon Black]

After climbing at Garden of the Gods on a windy day, I noticed my
Aliens and Camalots are a bit gunked up. Anyone have suggestions on
cleaning cams?

Thanks.

Lon

[Wiclimber]

>Anyone have suggestions on
>cleaning cams?

mild soap and warm water?
adrian

[Christian :?]

lonan...@aol.com (Lon Black) wrote in message news:<4b079ef4.0205...@posting.google.com>...

Just did the cam workup recently after all my gear rusted in Scotland.
This is covered in Dawn's FAQ. (not the Scottish weather)

What worked for me, and my gear was seriously crustified, was working
the gear manually if I could (there were some pieces that would have
ripped the trigger wires), then a soak in white gas, then a soak in
WD-40, then spray with tri-glide/flo (whatever).

I tried to work each cam/biner vigourously between each step.

It finally worked after 3 days.

Keep the nylon away from the explosives.

Cheers,
Christian :?)

FYI, you will probably get more posts telling you how all this shit is
more harmful than marking your rope, but I do that too and am still
alive, and my ropes and rack have been abused pleanty over the years.

OK- my own thread drift here: has anyone noticed that if you climb a
route below 5.9 in red rocks, the chances are that almost 100% of the
people on the route will be decked out in brand new gear and full
shiny racks? What gives? I can understand the newbie to moderate
ratio, but I can't understand how I'm the only one climbing for 10+
years who still gets on these routes. Maybe I should revisit the
"breaking through trad 5.10" threads. Anyway, I still would climb
these routes, and I enjoy the security of knowing that there are
better things to pluck from a campsite or car sitting right next to
me- but kinda sad that my rack has a deterance factor ;?) HEXES!
HEXES! Who wants some ice cold HEXES!