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Cams With Stainless Steel Axles

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Kirtis Courkamp · · Golden · Joined Mar 2011 · Points: 378

Do all cams have stainless steel axles? I am starting to see rust on some of my normal C4's from alpine mixed abuse. I usually take my cams out and air them out after climbing. I know this is just surface rust (not worries about strength here). It just made me wonder what cams have stainless steel parts and which ones don't. I don't see any rust on my ultralight master cams and I think I am starting to see some surface rust on the axle of my baby, a new #4 ultralight c4. 

Do you guys know which cams have all stainless steel parts?

that guy named seb · · Britland · Joined Oct 2015 · Points: 236

No cam will have all stainless parts, it would be more expensive, heavier for the same strength, or weaker for the same weight. Wild country's new friends have a hollow stainless steel axle which gives you essentially two axles for the weight of one (WC's words not mine) 

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