My friend and I had a similar experience with this cam. One of the wires popped out of the moving joint. It wasn’t cause by a fall, thankfully. What happened was when my friend was cleaning the route, he hung it on his gear loop, and the cam got caught at something while he came up. He must have yanked it a little too hard, cuz the wired popped out right then. I don’t think the gear was designed to take force in that direction, but the sight of the wire hanging was definitely freaky

To Omega Pacific’s credit, they immediately sent my friend a new cam with a locking binder upon notice. Would I use that cam? hmm….good question

OP is just making gear for climbers who like to factor in some uncalculated risk, a little spice.

I’ve personally never used anything by OP because they used to use prison labor to manufacture their products. They’ve stopped this practice, but it’s still a bit unnerving that a company would allow a piece of life saving technology to be put together by non-experienced workers let alone prisoners.

Didn’t know about the prison labor, kind of interesting but I guess it depends on how old the cam is, maybe it was made by a civilian.

I was really hoping for more name calling and conspiracy theories on the rc.com thread, that’s really the only reason I read those. I do like that everyone is looking for pictures of the cam, like, while it was failing, in real time. I know that my camera will be the first thing I grab for if I’m about to deck.

hahaha. How do you practice those kind of reflexes? You must be born with them.