Mystery sliders

I can find absolutely no markings of any kind on these. Anyone know what they are?

Looks very much like a D. Best slider that I have, but the connection at the thumb loop is a little different. Mine is marked on the underside of the trigger. I wouldn’t trust it much, the lack of the “scoop” that Ball Nutz have makes the brass slider part pretty unstable.

Hmmm. Never hear of them. Of course I was a noodle brained kid at the time they were produced, mid 80s according to Supertaco. I'm not sure the slider is brass, it appears to be similar material to the main nut head (?). Thanks Peter

Stephane Pennequin at The Nut Museum will know, and it's likely he has a full set. He may post about this; he does from time to time for these types of questions.

Needle Sports Nut Museum

Contact info at bottom of page. I don't see your sliders on the thumbnail of sliders photo on that page. The trigger bar is unique and the 3rd slider in the image from the left, seems closest but no cigar maybe. I think the caption says that is a Quickie.

They look a lot like GO PRO Rock'N Rollers but aren't quite right...

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Needle Sports Nut Museum

Contact info at bottom of page. I don't see your sliders on the thumbnail of sliders photo on that page. The trigger bar is unique and the 3rd slider in the image from the left, seems closest but no cigar maybe. I think the caption says that is a Quickie.

Wow that was an eye opener! I had no idea the scale of the "camming unit arms race" going on during the late 70s-80s. So many funky ideas. It would be great to know what exactly was commonly used during a time period (i.e., what was commonly available on the market and used widely during a time period) as this is not quite clear on that webpage--does anyone know of a timeline/history that really shows that accurately? I placed my first cam in 2003, so I basically missed the entire race...but it would really interesting to know what people were using on a given classic/vintage climb! For example, when were the first 0.3-0.5ish cams being widely used? I emailed Stephane with the slider photos, maybe he'll also chime in here.

CLIMB TECH (USA) prototype Tech Nuts (summer 1999) & Tech Nuts #1 to #6 (2000) 

Stéphane

nutstorywrote:

CLIMB TECH (USA) prototype Tech Nuts (summer 1999) & Tech Nuts #1 to #6 (2000) 

Best wishes from Corsica   

Stéphane

Thanks! Any idea on strength or stability/reliability in the field? Would you whip?