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What to do with broken holds

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Started 1 year ago by Donovan Craig
Latest reply from tonde

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Donovan Craig
Member

The gym where I work has boxes and boxes of broken holds. Im sure many of us have a few boxes hidden in the corner somewhere. What is everyone else doing with these useless pieces of plastic? Can you recycle them, can you reuse them, do I have to mail them back to the manufacturer in order to have them recycled?

Im interested not only to hear what you all do, but it would be great for hold companies to chime in as well. As far as I can tell, none of the companies will tell you (via website) that they recycle their plastic.

Thanks,

Posted 1 year ago #
Donovan Craig
Member

I'll answer this one...(LOL)

http://www.routesetter.com/category/how-to/page/6/

Anyone else have any insight, or anything to add? Does Woody's even still exist and more importantly, do they recycle?

Posted 1 year ago #
Brannon
Member

If some of the holds are still intact (washer is crushed, crack in the back, etc) you can mount the hold on a painted board and give them out as prizes for comps, end of season prizes for a team, or any other occasion.

Or you can use some of them as key rings for your setting room, wall access, or other keys that always seem to be getting lost.

It would be nice to here from some companies who are willing to recycle holds...my ideas are limited to only a few holds, leaving the rest as dust collectors for the gym.

Posted 1 year ago #
shawd01
Member

I personally know the owner of Woody's hold and They did recycle other holds into filler for there holds. However like a lot of up start he ran into some hard times and had to stop making holds.

We have urned some broken holds in to screw on's.

Posted 1 year ago #
Donovan Craig
Member

Well thanks for the info, I appreciate the effort.

I'll take a look at what we could reuse, using your advice.

Thanks,

Posted 1 year ago #
RhoadsClimbs
Member

Marine epoxy will fix anything.

http://www.westsystem.com/ss/

Posted 1 year ago #
Donovan Craig
Member

Really, I thought it might be a bit dangerous to fill cracks and 'glue' holds back together. Have you had much success with this?

Posted 1 year ago #
Sloperslapper
Member

I've also successfully salvaged pieces of broken holds by drilling out new holes, and sanding the broken part smooth to remove sharp edges. You can actually end up with some really cool dual tex stuff this way.

Posted 1 year ago #
tonde
Member

I second Sloperslapper idea, recyle them yourself, and have your own custom collection.

Posted 1 year ago #

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