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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Clint, you always have the answer! Cool to know, thank you.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Ken
Trad climber
Arroyo Grande
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Bachar was selling 3/4" and 1/2" in the early '80s, and I thought he was making them too by grinding down WC 1". They were like double the price (maybe $75 instead of $45).
Only thing available but a little sketchy, then the Wired Bliss TCU's showed up.
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vininja
Social climber
NJ
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Dec 27, 2012 - 05:09pm PT
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Glad I looked up the cool threads on ST.
I found a 1/2 friend. Looks like it is the thicker stem version.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Jun 29, 2015 - 11:28am PT
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Anyone know when the Friend size of 2 1/2 size was made that had flat machine nuts AND included the patent stamp?
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Jul 22, 2015 - 03:41pm PT
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^need to know bump!
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jonnyrig
climber
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Jul 22, 2015 - 03:56pm PT
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Hope you find your answer. Interesting bump though, as I have two 1/2 size friends hanging on a sling at home. Knot selling those; but now I've gotta go compare them to this thread to see exactly what they are. Selling a mess of other rigid stem friends on Ebay though, of various production type. Flat nuts, round nuts. People think I'm nuts for climbing on them. Oh well.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Jul 23, 2015 - 10:34am PT
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Thanks johnny.
Nuts to climb on these oldies? Plenty of people still doing it, but hopefully yours have been reslung by now : )
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Jul 24, 2015 - 08:00am PT
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The Wild Country half size Friends came onto the market in 1981. The 1½ and
> the 2½ hit the American market in May/June 1981.
-Stephane
Not the dates I was hoping for but at least it cleared something up. Thank you!
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jonnyrig
climber
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Jul 28, 2015 - 08:45am PT
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Relatively early version? Titanium stem?
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chelsey870
Trad climber
Philadelphia
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I know that I am coming into this post waaaayyyy late, even years late. But I picked up a Micro 1/2 rigid like the one being discussed earlier. Who is Walt in comparison to Rob? Did they work together?
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