Front	Rear
Top	Bottom

Technical Details

I acquired my C.A.M.P. Yo-yo from Tejas Mountain Sports in 1999. It was made in 1998.

My Yo-yo is 53 mm. long, 117 mm. wide, 25 mm. high, and weighs 107 g.

The C.A.M.P. Yo-yo consists of two 4.1 mm. stamped plates separated by a turned bollard and a forged nosepiece. Each plate has an arcuate slot for an HMS carabiner. The bollard is 14 mm. long and 11.9 mm. diameter at the ends, but turned with a shallow U-groove so that the central diameter is only 10 mm. A single 3.5 mm. rivet holds the bollard in place. The nosepiece has a 12 mm. deep V-notch to provide friction. Two rivets hold the nosepiece in place.

One side of the Yo-yo is printed with a usage illustration and "YO-YO." The other side is printed with a rigging icon, "ROPE," "min ø 10," max ø 11," the CAMP wolf logo, "Made in Italy," "1C," and "Use Only HMS karabiner."

Comments

The C.A.M.P. Yo-yo is similar to the Salewa Antz and Wild Country Single Rope Controller. A bight is inserted into the left side (as shown) of the controller, and an HMS carabiner is clipped through the slots and the bight. The HMS is anchored appropriately. Rope is fed by turning the Yo-yo horizontally. During a fall, the Yo-yo rotates into the orientation shown, and the rope is wedged between the HMS carabiner and the lower pin. In addition, the metal piece at the upper left has a V-slot that engages the rope, adding additional friction.

History

Blacksmith Nicola Codega founded C.A.M.P. in 1889 to produce wrought-iron goods. The company first entered the climbing equipment business in 1920 when Nicola's son Antonio started making ice axes for the Italian Army Alpine Corps. The firm continued to grow and was handed down through the family.

From about 1950 through 1976, C.A.M.P. used a diamopnd-shaped logo bearing "D CN & FD CAMP" for "Ditta Cogenda Nicol;a & Figli De Cogedga Antonio Metilde Premana.

In 1968, C.A.M.P. entrusted Robert Charles Maillot and his firm Interalp to distribute C.A.M.P. products outside Italy. These products bore both C.A.M.P. and INTERALP logos. Their relationship continued until 1980.

C.A.M.P. changed its name to "Construzione Articoli Montagna Premana" in 1972.

In 1977 C.A.M.P. started using a new logo with "CAMP" inside a rounded rectangle above a mountian.

C.A.M.P. introduced a new wolfs-head logo in 1992.

C.A.M.P. acquired Cassin in 1997.

In 2003 C.A.M.P. again changed the company name, this time to "Concezione Articoli Montagna Premana, and changed their logo to CAMP in italics.

C.A.M.P. introduced another new logo in 2022.

Many C.A.M.P. products from recent decades have a product traceability code that indicates when they were made. Denis Pivot sent me the following "secret decoder ring" for interpreting these codes:

• Until and including 1995: The code is three or four digits. The first one or two indicate the batch number and the remaining two indicate the year.
  • For example, "295" means second batch made in 1995.
• From 1996 through 2005, The code is a numeral indicating the batch nmuber and a letter in the Italian alphabet indicating the year, with A in 1996 through I in 2004 and L in 2005 (J and K do not exist) .
  • For example, "1D" means the first batch made in 1999.
• From 2006 unttil 2016: The code is three digits. the first indicates the batch number and the remaining two indicate the year.
  • For example, "216" means second batch made in 2016.
• From 2017 onward: The code is two two-digit numbers, where the first indicates the month and the second pair indicates the year.
  • For example, "05 17" means it was made in May 2017.

Some products may not have received a product traceability code.