New BD Cams (alien-esque)?

Prefer to spend on American companies that hire American climbers and workers.. Then if not possible I'll buy from companies in countries that treat pay their employees well.

Looks like a carbon copy of Metolius Master Cams. All the way down to the thumb loop and kevlar trigger thread.

You can buy metolius master cams that are made in the U.S.A. by climbers or you can buy Chinese stuff made in a factory where the people making it could give a rat's ass about climbing.

It also looks like they are using a dyneema sling too, I remember reading somewhere that they thought the cable pinched skinny slings too much and they would only use nylon slings on their cams.

"i worked in manufacturing at BD when camalots were being "american made" at the factory in salt lake and i guarantee you not one of the workers on the camalot line was a climber or gave one single f*#k about climbing."

why can't BD put kevlar on the C4's? those wire cables always get fukked up

How bout that 17% unemployment rate in Alpine County? Maybe things are better in a big city like SF where you can get a job making games to grow imaginary vegetables on your smart phone so you can make friends.

It also looks like they are using a dyneema sling too, I remember reading somewhere that they thought the cable pinched skinny slings too much and they would only use nylon slings on their cams.

The article you remember is probably from their QC Lab blog. The narrower slings caused failure at ~10 Kn and kinking of the cable at 3-4 Kn. Maybe that load rating is sufficient for these pieces.

Is it just because it's not opaque, or does the tubing around the thumb loop look beefier? Also, does the red sling look doubled up?

I'm more worried about the Chinese metals used to make the cams.

I mean, for f*cks sake, the Bay Bridge was made with Chinese Steel, and sh#t fell apart in 2009.

I used to sweet old dried paint chips off warehouse floors in Pamona in summer when I was 15 to make some cash, used to bus tables and work 16 hour days that I only could count as 8 being a projectionist building shitty movies in BFE. No ACLU to my rescue, just shitty jobs that we all get if we are lucky

When they retail for $80+, would you rather have two cams that cover the same range, or a single wider range cam?

BD addresses the challenge of increasing the range of the smaller units by offsetting the axle. The smaller sizes have the range of a dual axle without having to accommodate two separate rods of metal in the head of the unit.

"What the hell would it mean to say the proof is in the pudding?"