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Clog Wiresling(Hexagon) Nuts

Accession Number

1344.2016.1

Object Name

Clog Wiresling(Hexagon) Nuts

Created

31/07/2016

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

31/07/2016

Brief Description

Set of Clog nuts on wires

Materials

aluninium alloy, plastic

Dimensions

Nuts - 1.5,2,2.5,3,3.5,4,4.5(l) cms

Number Of Objects

7

Inscription Description

"CLOG A,1,2,3,4,5,6"

Colour

silver, gold, red, yellow, green, white

Maker

Clog

Object Production Place

Wales

Provenance

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.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Mick Tighe

Acquisition Date

31/07/2016

Condition Check Date

31/07/2016

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

31/07/2016

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