Salewa Tubus

Technical details:

I acquired my Salewa Tubus from Link Up Gear in 2000.

The Salewa Tubus is a grooved belay tube. It is forged from aluminum alloy and then hard anodized. Mine is 60 mm. long, 48 mm. wide, 112 mm. high, and weighs 79 g. The slots are 33 mm. long and 15 mm. wide. The top of the Omega oval carabiner that I use for comparing belay tubes sits 9 mm. below the ends of the slots. The keeper is a stiff plastic-covered cable.

One side of my Tubus is stamped "SALEWA ITALY" and "PAT.PENDING." The other side is stamped with a rigging icon.

Comments:

The Tubus is essentially identical to my Edelrid Lotse, Singing Rock, Trango Jaws, and Zero-G G-Wedge; so to avoid repetition, I refer you to the Trango Jaws description.