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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 24, 2007 - 03:54pm PT
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anyone out there buy stuff in bulk? like chalk (in blocks) and tape (in boxes)?
if so, where do you buy it?
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ryanb
climber
Seattle, WA
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Nov 24, 2007 - 04:13pm PT
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magnesium carbonate (chalk) can be had for super cheap at a good potter supply store. They use it to thicken glazes or something.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2007 - 05:01pm PT
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Russ, checked and replied
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Nov 24, 2007 - 05:10pm PT
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Do a little diggin online and you can turn up boxes of 32 rolls of 1.5 x 15 yd. Johnson & Johnson tape. That's the good stuff.
Russ edit: tape is g'hey
SM edit: but I use it
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 24, 2007 - 06:38pm PT
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The magnesuim carbonate sold for a glaze ingredient isn't at all like block chalk which is a naturaly mined calcium/magnesium carbonate rock.
It's much denser, (think chalk bag full of sand) and doesn't adhere to the hands well or have the same frictional "feel".
It is a better moisture absorber though. Almost to good.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Nov 24, 2007 - 07:10pm PT
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Whoa! For a second I thought this was a steroid thread, Hartouni's bulkin up!
ps...second WB on buying from Frank Endo, best gymnastics supplier anywhere.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 24, 2007 - 07:52pm PT
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using tape is cheating enough! and I am bulky, just not in a muscular way
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Nov 24, 2007 - 11:31pm PT
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Here, the local fixation is on High School Football.
And the budget-plea for Tape overrides geeks in a geometry class, in need of #2 Ticonderoga pencils. I'm pretty sure The School Board hasn't figured out how to get a good angle on getting Coach's Tape at a wholesale price, because the entire curriculum-of-the-mind has been discarded in favor of pursuit of a cloth banner to hang in the gym.
I have no idea about magnesium carbonate. Maybe it's in the stockroom, unused and not understood.
When I was a Student, I relieved the stockroom of the potassium nitrate (smoke bombs) and the butyric acid (stink bombs).
I could climb my new routes above, way up, above the High School, and the acoustics of the valley (not that valley, a tiny valley) allowed me to laugh when I heard the abusive football coach ostensibly urge his minions to success.
I could hear the coach, berating and denigrating, man after man after man, from my position on a rock, above it all.
The Coach could tape up the ankles, but, he didn't tape up the mental scars (and torn knee ligaments, for some) that would be with those young guys forever.
Friday Nights Lights - the real version.
Then again, maybe I have it all wrong.
Maybe a football program, berating a man, until he learns to be great, is the way to go.
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