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Tuolumne Meadows, July 1986. Look close and you can see one of my homemade stoppers on the right side of the picture (the one with a hole in the side.) A friend used a set of Chouinard straight sided nuts to create forms for sandcasts for stoppers at Chico State. Had a set made, I drilled 'em for cordage. They worked very well.
Dave Dinnell
on Feb 13, 2006 6:19 am
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Marcsoltan

Marcsoltan - Jan 17, 2010 5:48 pm - Voted 10/10

Dave,

Did your friend design the curved stoppers? I'm trying to remember when curved stoppers hit the market. I think I still have some flat sided stoppers from God Knows when.

Dave Dinnell

Dave Dinnell - Jan 21, 2010 2:23 am - Hasn't voted

Re: Dave,

Hey Marc, I think curved stoppers came out around '83?? I had a first generation set of Rocks from Wild Country...1-6 wired and 7-9 on perlon. But the straight sided versions were easier to create molds for.

The friend that created these didn't do any other design work, it was sort of a one-off project. Another friend of mine did do design work though and created the first Chouinard curved stoppers. I preferred the WC versions though. I still have a few of the smaller wired nuts but gave away my larger ones as well as a bunch of Campbell Saddlewedge stoppers.

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