The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
1344.2016.1
Clog Wiresling(Hexagon) Nuts
31/07/2016
Hermione Cooper
31/07/2016
Set of Clog nuts on wires
aluninium alloy, plastic
Nuts - 1.5,2,2.5,3,3.5,4,4.5(l) cms
7
"CLOG A,1,2,3,4,5,6"
silver, gold, red, yellow, green, white
Clog
Wales
Clogwyn Climbing Gear (Clog) began life way back in 1966 in a place called Deiniolen in North Wales. Founded by Denny Moorehouse and his partner, Shirley Smith, Clog were one of the first companies in the UK to mass produce rock climbing gear of any quality at a time when climbers were still using chockstones and nuts- as in nuts and bolts- to jam into fissures in the rock to secure themselves. A well known climb in Llanberis, Wales, had the pedal and crank of a bike jammed into a crack which you could thread a sling around.
One of Clog's first products were hexagonal nuts, a fine set of the Wiresling versions of which we have here in the collection, though looking at the price list opposite it seems we are missing a 'Brass B'
Wired nuts were popular in the early days, but they were prone to lifting out with rope drag and the larger versions pretty soon became rope only, with only the smaller ones being Wiresling for strength.
Mick Tighe cobbled this lot together from various sources.
Donated by Mick Tighe
31/07/2016
31/07/2016
Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
31/07/2016