CAMALOT' STORY (by nutstory)...

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nutstory

climber

Ajaccio, Corsica, France

Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 12, 2018 - 01:26am PT

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Mar 12, 2018 - 12:40pm PT

87 and 89 were my favorites.

Used a couple of those in conjunction with my first 1.5 and 2.5 rigid stem friend in those first years of climbing on my own rack.

Now a huge fan of the ultralights.

ClimbingOn

Trad climber

Mar 12, 2018 - 02:57pm PT

Awesome display of the most iconic piece of climbing gear out there, in my opinion. I believe a variation on the single-stem pre-thumb-loop Camalot is missing. There was a generation in there that had a "rounded" thumb catch, and then a generation with a more "flat" thumb catch.

Mungeclimber

Trad climber

Nothing creative to say

Mar 12, 2018 - 05:16pm PT

Climbingon, compare 94 to 2000 'ends' - that the 'catch' you're talking about? or after only on the actual loops?

Trashman

Trad climber

SLC

Mar 12, 2018 - 05:39pm PT

Depends on how granular you want to get. There were at least 3 different “thumb rests” as well as 3 different stem cable covers(no stop, metal stop, molded plastic stop), and probably a half dozen other in line changes to trigger bars, retractor wires, swages and side plates.

I think Marty captured the overall timeline quite well, extra points for those rare proto photos.

WBraun

climber

Mar 12, 2018 - 05:44pm PT

Camelot was invented by a non-climber engineer named Tony.

I went to his house one day and couldn't believe all the stuff he's designing.

Brilliant guy .....

ontheedgeandscaredtodeath

Social climber

Wilds of New Mexico

Mar 12, 2018 - 08:52pm PT

I took my first leader fall on the ‘87 version of the red size!

jonnywoodward

climber

Mar 15, 2018 - 11:41am PT

Very imaginative and inventive guy. https://patents.justia.com/inventor/tony-christianson

Lorenzo

Trad climber

Portland Oregon

Mar 15, 2018 - 12:33pm PT

Barber didnt need even a single one of those silly contraptions.

Henry climbed in shoes he cut the sole off of. He didn’t set any trends there, either.

Brian in SLC

Social climber

Salt Lake City, UT

Mar 15, 2018 - 12:39pm PT

Looking at the original patent...the springs were initially in the stem.

Hmmm. Anyone seen a prototype of that one?

I bootied a single stem early model a number of years ago off Devil's Castle. Odd looking compared to the final product.

Jonny, I remember gettin' a chuckle out of both of us trying to retrieve a stuck #1 off the Dead Snag...