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Camp nuts?

bare_feet

30-Mar-2007
9:37:53 PM

A place near me is offering very cheap nut sets. My only reservation is that they are 'Camp' brand, which I've never heard of. Has anyone used gear made by these people?

If not, how would you feel about trusting yourself to pro from an unknown manufacturer?

muki

30-Mar-2007
10:13:06 PM

I use camp brand slider/ball nuts, very good gear! I would suggest that if the company is a gear
manufacturer that puts a rating on the gear then it will be fine, I mean its a wedge of aluminium on a steel
trace that is swaged! how bad can it be, no different to any other nuts on the market other than shape.

skink

30-Mar-2007
11:06:52 PM

Camp an unknown brand? Dude? They have been making climbing gear since before Chouinard was born! They just happen to be a continental brand (Italian) so us here in the colonies don't see as much of their stuff as the UK (Wild Country, DMM) and US (Black Diamond, Metolius) stuff....

Anyway, my first hand experience:

My first quickdraws all had Camp 'biners and these have been my work-horse biners - they are still going strong 10 years later (the biners, nylon has been replaced) - gate action still good on every one.

Camp make tri-cams, of which I religiously carry the pink - for this alone Camp should be legendary.

I have two of their ball-nuts which I don't often carry, but I have caught a climbing partners fall where the first piece of pro he came on to popped (a poor nut placement) - his next piece down, which also happened to be his LAST piece, was the second smallest Camp ball-nut and it held fine. Wasn't a long fall, but there also wasn't much rope out, so the ball-nut took a quite a hit - took me an age to get it out when I eventually followed up.

Their cams aren't as sexy as BD and Wild Country, but one of my climbing partners has a full set and they do the biz.

I have a couple of Dyneema 120cm and 60cm sewn slings by Camp - quality is the same as the big names (DMM, WC) but they were 25% cheaper.

I bought a few of their latest Nano wiregate biners, they are awesome for the gear/bolt side of 'draws, but because they are so small clipping rope to them is a bit tricky.

I know many people who have happily used their helmets, ice-axes and crampons.

Their websites: http://www.camp.it/ and http://www.camp-usa.com/

And finally, all their gear is UIAA and CE approved, so don't worry about the safety side.

I have never used their nuts, but given the above I am confident they won't let you down (excuse the pun).

Basically, it isn't budget gear, it's just not trendy gear :o)

Macciza

31-Mar-2007
5:28:47 PM

'Camp' gear is fine. It just a name really . .
I prefer something solid sounding - like Lucky . .
It is really just how you feel trusting to racking camp nuts with straight nuts . . .

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