In reply to shumidrives:
It's a funny topic this. Cams are approximately 3 billion times better than hexes in every single way, but particularly for placing in breaks a la Bamford.
However, for some reason, the placing of hexes, particularly in horizontal breaks on gritstone, is a topic which arouses a certain sanctimonious attitude in a specific type of usually older, very experienced climber who was too tight to buy cams for the first 30 years or so of them becoming widely available, and is probably too tight to have ever replaced the awful rigid-stemmed, worn out, self-repaired ones they eventually reluctantly acquired (probably as crag swag, or hand-me-downs). These people think that it's somehow good to continue clanging around the crags with their stupid jingly jangly cowbells, which can, with a great deal of fiddling, be placed as marginal pro in some breaks. If you're lucky. When it would take seconds to whack in a solid cam which would be good as guaranteed to hold the most massive of whippers.
I don't, by the way, work for any company with an interest in the sale of cams. But I do really hate hexes. I hate placing them, I
really hate removing them on second, I hate carrying them to the crag, I hate dragging them up a route. And I hate the stupid noise they make.