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Technical Details

I acquired my C.A.M.P. tuber from J. Tsang in 2017.

The C.A.M.P. is a round tuber. It is turned from aluminum alloy and anodized with a speckled pattern. Mine is 50 mm. long, 50 mm. wide, 37 mm. high, and weighs 50 g. It uses an accessory cord keeper.

My C.A.M.P. tuber is printed with "CAMP 97.1."

Comments

Aside from the rope running toward the center, which wasn't a real problem, I don't mind Tubers. While they have largely been superceded by belay tube, they established the working principle and still can serve well. A nice feature is that the friction can be changed before use by simply turning the tuber over.

History

Blacksmith Nicola Codega founded C.A.M.P. in 1889 to produce wrought-iron goods. The company first enteres 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. trusted 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.

While the "CAMP 97.1" printing on this tuber may indicate the date and month of manufacture, it does not conform the the standard C.A.M.P. date coding.