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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A complicated camming chock which adjusts automatically to a continuous range of crack sizes and shapes.  5, record 1, English, - spring%2Dloaded%20camming%20device

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The three or four cams in a spring-loaded camming device are connected to a trigger mechanism. Pull the trigger and the cams retract. ... Release the trigger and the cams again rotate outward. ... The three or four cams rotate independently of each other, permitting each other to expand to the maximum, wherever it may sit in a particular crack.  6, record 1, English, - spring%2Dloaded%20camming%20device

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Friends are only one type of SLCDs. Now there are Amigos, Camalots, Micromates, Buddies, etc. Therefore, it is best to avoid using "Friend" when speaking of a spring-loaded camming device.  2, record 1, English, - spring%2Dloaded%20camming%20device

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[...] coinceur à dimension variable, si facile et si rapide à placer qu’il s’avère amical dans les situations difficiles.  1, record 1, French, - coinceur%20m%C3%A9canique

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Le coinceur à cames [...] communément appelé «friend» [...] doit sa tenue à l’écartement des cames lorsque l’on imprime une force sur son axe. Ce système lui confère une bonne tenue dans les fissures à bords parallèles, voir même dans des cas moins favorables : fissures irrégulières ou légèrement évasées, grâce au fonctionnement indépendant de ses cames.  5, record 1, French, - coinceur%20m%C3%A9canique

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Un ressort maintient les cames écartées. Une tirette permet de rapprocher les cames et ainsi de glisser le friend dans une fissure; lorsqu’on relâche, les cames se coincent sur les parois de la fissure et plus on tire, plus les cames se coincent.  6, record 1, French, - coinceur%20m%C3%A9canique

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A device that climbers anchor in a crack and connect to their ropes ... designed to stop a falling climber.  4, record 2, English, - chock

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In the early days ... leaders used natural chockstones ... Soon it became apparent that an artificial chockstone [was] superior to improvised "stones" ... their shape and variety of sizes allowed them to be placed and removed quickly and easily in all sizes of cracks, and the hole in the center seemed just made for inserting runners ... they do not chip or scar the rock ...  3, record 2, English, - chock

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

[A chock is] often called a nut, because the original type of chock was a machine nut picked-up along the railroad tracks on the way to British cliff climbs. Chocks are normally threaded with a steel cable, or with nylon rope or webbing to allow carabiners to be clipped to them.  5, record 2, English, - chock

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Objet métallique de forme asymétrique monté sur câble ou parfois sur cordelette, que l’on peut coincer dans les fissures du rocher.  4, record 2, French, - coinceur

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[... ] les nuts ou coinceurs dérivent d’une curieuse technique adoptée [...] par les rochassiers anglais [...] [qui] emportaient avec eux quelques pierres polies [...] de différentes grandeurs pour les encastrer dans les fissures, entourées d’une cordelette.  2, record 2, French, - coinceur

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

[...] l’escalade libre permet la mise en place des coinceurs, particulièrement utiles en granit. [...] Il en existe beaucoup de sortes dont les deux principales sont les pyramidaux et les excentriques.  5, record 2, French, - coinceur

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The straight taper is the original design ... The wider, or "face sides" are flat and tapered down at the same angle. These are most useful in a crack whose sides taper uniformly, and where the slot best matches the taper of the nut.  1, record 3, English, - straight%20taper

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Many climbers find it easier to place and remove (clean) a straight-sided ... wedge. However, the straight-sided wedge doesn't provide the same grip on the rock as a curved one.  2, record 3, English, - straight%20taper

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The curve of the taper varies with each manufacturer. When the curving is less pronounced, they are generally the easier to remove.  2, record 4, English, - curved%20taper

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The curved taper has virtually replaced the straight taper in the medium to large range. One side is concave, the other convex.... When placed and yanked on, the curved taper does a quasi-camming action on the convex side until it rotates into the best spot.  1, record 4, English, - curved%20taper

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Les coinceurs trapézoïdaux les plus couramment utilisés présentent des faces incurvées [...] l’une convexe et l’autre concave. [...] Ils peuvent être placés [...] dans des fissures presque parallèles. Leur forme leur permet d’exercer une action de verrouillage [...]  2, record 4, French, - bicoin%20%C3%A0%20face%20concave

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish