Break testing climbing Cams

Do you want to see some cams break? I know you do. You've been asking for a while. Watch on this episode of Cam Crusher. Hi, I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to my garage. This is Bobby Hutton and I'm sure you know him by now if you've watched any of my episodes. So Peter Thomas sent me a bunch of random cams including a number three Camelot that we are going to start the test with and we're just going to play with some old cams, see what happens. We're going to pull on the slings first and then the loops directly if we can. So we're just going to see what happens and I think Bobby has some cams too that we might end up breaking. There's no real hypothesis we're testing in this episode other than we have an adapter for Slack Snap and we're pretty excited to break stuff. So thank you Peter for donating these. Let's break them. If you've never met Slack Snap before, here you go. It's a 20 foot long test bed. A 20 to 1 pulley system pulled in two strands at a time into a winch. Got a dynamometer here and a dynamometer here. And then we've attached a adapter that my friend made for us and we are going to in this case just keep them parallel. We have the ability to make them smaller and change different things but just parallel for now. Six millimeter cordelette that's about five years old and it's fishermen's with loops on this side and a loop on this side. So let's find out if this breaks before this comes out. The cam looks like it's in pretty good condition. Clearly the yeah it's still functional. It's kind of got a some kinking twisting going on here but it's also a 18 year old cam that's been used for a lot in the last 18 years Peter said. So it's a very very used cam a lot but well okay so we got 9.8 kilonewtons and that sling did not give us full value for what this cam can provide. So we're going to put we're going to try to get a soft shackle in here something a little bit stronger and see if we can pull on this again. So oh look at that this this is insanely cool. Yeah so one of the rivets at the end oh of that axle popped out so that's and then look this other one is getting gnarled as well and that would have gone soon. Look at there's all of this here yeah we'll have to look at what's doing that and then on the other side right right there it's all chewed up as well. Well that's really chewed up. Yeah. Wow well that was quite violent. How's the soft shackle connection? The stem? Was it like that before? Yeah that's just the tail sticking out. Yeah these soft shackles are about 50 kilonewtons and that bend radius is not too bad so. Wow so it it came out maybe in our next test we can taper it a little and so it can like literally can't come out. So it came out at 16.6 kilonewtons or 3,650 pounds of force and we just reviewed the footage and realized that the space between these two bolts don't really accommodate a three inch cam. I actually placed it in this way to insert it so that's not a really fair test to have one of the lobes on the other side of this bolt but it did come up with a really cool result and but that explains why everything got chewed up. 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gotta be so these are all our cameras we set up every test is quite a bit of of work right in there all right anyway so this is an 11 16th webbing and this is a 20 to 1 ah beautiful places fun fact this amp seal was my original backup to my first 100 meter uh highline setup and then we got our winch over there it pulls in two strands at once in order to get a 10 to 1 speed but a 20 to 1 muscle this will go up to 50 000 pounds when you guys leave notes in the comments below on what i should break test next i put him on sticky notes on here so we don't forget to eventually do them we are a one and a kind of a two-man show so it's kind of a takes a while to get to things but anyways we have a point what is that a 0.5 camelot i believe this is the first generation with the u-stem yeah this is the u-stem is right there and then your 11 16th nylon sling so let's turn on our 960 frames per second slow-mo me trying to be the slow-mo guys it's on leave in the comments below how you think this is dangerous all right it's got some slippage so right now we're currently at 4.5 after you yeah so this is tapered this is thinner here than out here so so this cable is probably not that good for the sling hence why it didn't break in the knot and it broke in case you're not used to what webbing looks like when it breaks there you go um wow this thing just really wanted to slip i know it's obviously metal in here and slippery but as over cam does it get it's it's flat wow so now it's almost like a nut so let's not even do anything else other than just attach uh the like a 72 kilometers and carabiner to this and and pull it yeah okay we're indirect indirect and sir that's what we got we broke a cam like wow it's pretty cool i mean it's that's in there so if it doesn't come out a 16.25 kilonewton and that wire is pretty minked up through so this is a blue dmm with a sewing sling that has an x shape in it so you can kind of extend it out in order to maybe not need a quick draw and we decided to clip both strands to see if we can get this to break first there's a little bit of a taper on that nice so this broke i assume right here because that's some pretty sharp really really sharp stuff because this is pretty sharp and gnarly and probably not great for the wedding but um it didn't break it came everything seems to be intact the cam definitely slipped up oh it definitely slipped at 14.2 kilonewtons and it's kind of wedged behind oh damn so that one lobe is all messed up so that broke it's pretty cool it's interesting it breaks there i mean yeah it makes a lot of sense but it's interesting this didn't move at all so you can kind of see how that looks like british teeth yeah it's kind of mangled so broken 14.95 kilonewtons or 3050 pounds of holes here is a dmm green little guy we will see if he slips out before breaking this sling shocker this sling broke what are the chances you know break tests are a lot more fun when you don't know what's going to happen cool well all right let's connect direct we got 12.8 on that one or 2750 pounds of force interesting how it bends and curbs and kind of messes it all up on the way out the triggers are all damaged yeah pretty cool and we got 15.4 kilonewtons or 3300 pounds of force check out this lobe deformation how flat those got it changed the curve is gone on that guy it changed the shape putting that much pressure on there so here's our next victim this is a ventolius cam with a sewn sling so we'll get to see what a sewn sling does with the um let's see here dmm carabiner at peterson and we will see what breaks first we're gonna put it in in such a way it doesn't hopefully slip out but it barely works with like one lobe there you can see is not working it's all it's been it's heavily used it's pretty mangled so let's just finish her off hey this is uh made in january 2002 that's 18 years old so this is legal oh look at that what happened the this lobe disintegrated it's in two pieces whoa oh it delaminated something whoa yeah i think this was in there before oh oh not anymore so what's the condition of our sling just fine okay and the carabiner because we got only 8.15 or 1650 pounds of force and obviously a carabiner can handle that so well you can see the carabiner is a little softer so that's a problem okay last but not least we have a green alien yes this is everything i hoped cam crusher would be holy cow wow and the sling so the sling's plenty strong the wire is plenty strong that's really awesome so we got 10.45 kilonewtons or two thousand and two hundred pounds of force so bobby donated this one because he thought the sling might be bad oh look at that that lobe how deformed that got right there um that is so neat so uh yeah put in the comments below what you think we should test how we should test what you think of these tests and if you can give us some more old gear that would be interesting to break instead of you smashing your cams make sure you smash that like button 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