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karabin museum

Trad climber

phoenix, az

Jul 7, 2011 - 02:32am PT

Guys, I have been busy with the Lord and not busy with Supertopo.
Stephane you are beautiful on how you shame yourself for the not knowing.
Yes I have a set of these but my camera battery is dead. So I make you wait for 15 more minutes for the answer.

He He He........

Marty

karabin museum

Trad climber

phoenix, az

Jul 7, 2011 - 03:14am PT

Your answer is Rock House nuts from Korea. I purchased this set of nuts back in 1995 along with a multi-use plate, other belay plates and two sets of cams. It was difficult to land this set of nuts since I did not speak Korean and the business owner did not speak English. Somehow I got his company address but had no clue what items the company manufactured. I wrote letters but my letters were returned stating "I no not what say." So I came up with the idea of cutting out magazine photos and lined them up in such a way to communicate to the business owner to take my letter to an American restaurant and ask the restaurant owner to read the letter to him. It worked and I received bad photocopies of what he had for sale. Of course the letters were returned written in Korean and I found a Korean restaurant in town to read the return letter back to me. And yes it was required of me to purchase a lunch to get my information, but was having fun with the process. He sold many items which were common and I purchased everything that I had never seen before. The bank switched the USA monies to Korean monies and in return I received my purchase. I believe I paid for five lunches at different occasions to finalize the process.

The mystery nuts shown have a different cable set-up and maybe are an earlier set. The seller probably thought that there were two different sets of nuts judging by the color of the plastic on the wires. My 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 are yellow and the 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 is orange. Mystery solved?

Rock on! Marty