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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 2, 2006 - 08:31pm PT
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Slider nuts for parallel cracks. I have a full set of five sizes.
A giant 4" nut. I have only one of these.
Does anyone else have any Porter gear? If so please share.
Ken
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WBraun
climber
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Hey Ken
What happened to that cam nut that Charlie made that I gave you?
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 08:50pm PT
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Werner,
I am sure it is in the twenty or so boxes of stuff that still needs to be catalogued. When I find it I will post a picture. The cataloging is slow going and not my favorite thing to do, fortunately I have help or I would be doing it for the next ten years.
Ken
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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I picked up a brand new, never used set of those "PE" labeled DuoSlider Nuts and Square Bashies of Charlie's for Stephane's Nut Museum last year (I sent Marty a couple as well I think...). They kind of slipped by unnoticed on ebay from a long abandoned U-Store cubicle I believe. Werner, you didn't think much of the Bashies when I posted this photo before. Love the big i-beam nut job...
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WBraun
climber
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healyje
I used those bashies, they were the predecessor to the copperheads.
They sucked, especially when they became fixed. The big fat one you show in your photo when fixed you can drive a thin pointed angle straight into it's heart and tie it off and it will work.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Werner, I believe that on both counts...
Ken, I still have the dupe #5 bashie in the photo if you don't have one of these...
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2006 - 02:09am PT
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healyje,
I would love to have a #5. I may have smaller sizes. It is always nice to have some sort of story or history of the piece. Obviously this one wasn't used but where it came from would be interesting. I would bet it would work well in wide pin scars like the first pitch of Serenity. I think they were designed for shallow cracks that had been nailed out to a larger angle tip size.
Ken
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Ken, I wish there was a story but they were out of an abandoned U-Store unit in Sac. Would be glad to send the #5 on to you...
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 16, 2012 - 10:55am PT
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 16, 2012 - 11:10am PT
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But they ain't for sale. (...and I don't "donate" much.) "heartless man" (I joke)
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jan 16, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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Ken:
You inspired me to dig through an old box of old gear. I lived with Charlie at Briceburg when he was making nuts. He let me and Sandy (who was pregnant with Jon) live there rent free if I would help out with his manufacturing. The nuts pictured below were from that time (1973).
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 16, 2012 - 01:05pm PT
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Only one Porter nut in my collection thanks to Jim Bridwell and Birdfest!
Milled from 1 1/2" aluminum hexagonal stock.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jan 16, 2012 - 01:29pm PT
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My guess, Steve, is that nut is from a later run: he left out the "E"
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 16, 2012 - 01:34pm PT
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Phil
That was cool shop Charlie had in Briceburg huh?
Those were some funny times down there watching Charlie getting all excited in his shop.
What a great character, a real rare one of a kind ......
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jan 16, 2012 - 01:35pm PT
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Hey Phil- Did Charlie have a name for this shape? Any idea what the "E" meant?
Anyone have a Porter Hatchethead RURP for show and tell?
When he lead the triple cracks on the Shield, I don't think that he was using stock Chouinard RURPS but I have never been able to confirm that.
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scuffy b
climber
heading slowly NNW
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Jan 16, 2012 - 03:15pm PT
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When I bought mine, there was definitely a name, which I can only guess at
now. Rollercam, camhex, who knows?
Those hexes were really heavy.
Porter Equipment?
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Jan 16, 2012 - 03:56pm PT
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Ken, is that the Porter gear that I gave to you? Looks familiar.
Edit:
Any interest in these Porter hangers, Ken?
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Jan 16, 2012 - 06:44pm PT
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Steve: if my memory serves me well, the "E" stood for engineering. He called his start-up nut manufacturing: "Porter Engineering." Perhaps later he dropped the E.
Werner: absolutely right. It was great fun hanging out with Charlie and he got very worked-up and excited when he started turning out nuts. And I agree with you on the quality of the man. At this point I have met and climbed with a lot of people. He was truly one of a kind.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Jan 17, 2012 - 09:26am PT
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Steve: if my memory serves me well, the "E" stood for engineering. He called his start-up nut manufacturing: "Porter Engineering." Perhaps later he dropped the E. Very interesting! I have always thought that the “E” stood for Equipment, like Chouinard Equipment, referring to the interview by Chappie and George Bracksieck in Rock & Ice in1993, in which Charlie Porter says: “When I came out to Yosemite, my dream was to be a little bit like Chouinard and make pitons”.
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