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Trad climber
NY
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 7, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
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my friend has size 1,2,3, somewhat banged up, supposedly the "original" friends. he said he'd gladly sell them to me if i know what they are worth.
thanks
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p
Trad climber
NY
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2013 - 02:05pm PT
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its a good friend of mine. none of us wants to profit from the transaction for good karma.
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Levy
Big Wall climber
So Cal
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Those rigid stem Wild country friends are worth about $10.00 to 20.00 each. Put a new sling on the unit & it's ready to go!
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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I pick them up if the price is $20 or less for those that do not need new triggers.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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$10-20 each in "banged up" condition for the #2 and #3.
I've bought several for $25 each when in nearly new condition.
The #1 is not very useful these days - it fits such a small range of cracks that other cams dominate it.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Ebay has them going for about 20 bucks each.
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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Take a flight to prove the existence of gravity and have one hold you away from the cold embrace of Mother Earth... They become priceless until 25 clams separates you from "it". Sounds fair.
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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$10-20 each.
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BuddhaStalin
climber
Truckee, CA
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One thirty pack and one cheeseburger.
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Onewhowalksonrocks
Mountain climber
In the middle of the ocean
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$20 each if they are ok.
Unless you are at the rescue site in camp 4, then they want $80!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Want and get are not always very similar.
Looks like the consensus is $50 for the bunch.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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There ain't a person posting to this thread who would actually PAY $20 each for old Friends with nuts on the axle. I call bullshit right here and now.
I have done it several times.
They are what I use on my rack.
Especially at Indian Creek.
They are still lighter than C4 Camalots....
If you want to lead Quarter of a Man, you need 12 #2s, as I discovered once when I only had 9.
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greyghost
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV
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What Dingus said and make sure it's good bud! Or $10 to $15 each sounds fair
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skywalker
climber
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If its a good friend why couldn't you just "borrow" them for as long as you need them??? I borrowed a friends kayak for several years when I had to be on the east coast for an extended period of time. I gave it back when I moved back and bought my own.
S...
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jabbas
Trad climber
New River, AZ
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My rack is slowly becoming just a pile of aluminum. I'm amazed at how little everyone thinks WC Friends are worth. I guess things would be different if Chouinard had his stamp on it. Old Chouinard biners seem to have gold inlay these days. Always under the impression that the nutted axle Friends were superior to the peened rivet looking end of later editions.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Dang! You mean I been holding on my old rack of Friends for nuthin?
For sale: rack of Friends
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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I was speaking purely from a collectors' perspective...I don't buy used pro to go climbing with.
Anyone know the lineage of Friends' evolution? Are pictures and descriptions posted on ST somewhere? - I searched but could not find the thread(s).
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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There's some information here:
http://needlesports.com/NeedleSports/nutsmuseum/camsstory.htm
If you had original friends, marked with just a "1", "2", or "3", circlips holding the cams to the shaft, then, maybe they'd be of interest to a collector. Still, they don't command a huge amount of money. Maybe 30 bucks per or so.
If they say Wild Country on them, they'd be worth, like said above, maybe 10 bucks per. People sell them here at swaps for around 5 a piece.
The older Wild Country models will say "patent pending" on them. Newer ones will list the patent number.
How are yours marked?
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skywalker
climber
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Sorry Roots, I didn't quite understand that that's what you were getting at.
Carry on ;-)
S...
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Roots
Mountain climber
SoCal
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I need to look at the ones I have. I think one has just a "2" stamped on it.
Anyways, thanks for the link to Nut Museum. Not sure why I keep forgetting to look there for information....hell I was on the site just yesterday and reading. Getting old I guess!
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