Fixe Aliens
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I'm moving to Idaho after 9 years of grad school, 1 kid and being trapped on flat land. I have to rebuild my rack and I was wondering if anyone has any feedback about the Fixe Aliens. I used to climb in the Gunks and I love the older Aliens (pre 2007) and got a good bit of use out of them. Are the new ones of a similar quality? |
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they have a tendency to explode. Bad design changes and worse QC than CCH. Totem, however, improved upon the alien design and has wonderful QC. If you like the aliens then get some totem basics. Also consider looking at the totem cam for the larger end. |
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I have a mix of the older aliens as well as the new ones. I agree that the old style are better, and would love to have the full range. (I have blue, green, and yellow). I also have the gray and red in the new fixe aliens, and I really like how they place, however I don't like how short the trigger is. This makes it hard to remove on a deep placement. |
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9 years of grad school? I'm afraid to even ask. |
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Thanks for all your help! Sucks that the quality went down hill. I'll definitely check out the Totem cams. I'm a sociologist and my method is ethnography. It takes a bit longer to get a PhD if you are doing ethnography - 3 years of field work. |
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Ray...you read my mind. Love those Aliens, but the threads are alive with complaints about customer service and repair times, lack of communication, etc. |
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Trigger wires are a minimal problem. You should eventually expect trigger wire issues on any small cam and know how to fix them. |
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Random QC issues aside (as far as I know the Fixe Original Alien design doesn't have endless repetitive issues) |
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I have a raging QC and CS boner. |
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Deidre, |
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Thanks :-) |