Gear Box, Large Cams display was created February 2015 and is at the Phoenix Rock Gym. I wanted to come up with a artistic display of trad gear used for larger cracks, and keep it fun with a few historic trinkets. There was a small space located above the lockers at the rock gym so I designed the display to fit perfectly in that space. The display also works well as gear storage until a larger display is created. There are many awesome historic cams and crack devices in this display!!!
At one of the Outdoor Retailer shows the Access Fund had Chris Sharma signing chalk bags. The Dolt chalk bag was made in 1978 by the third owners of the Dolt company who only made fabric soft goods. The first place trophy is from the 2014 QCBC competition in Queen Creek canyon. Thanks Tony Cadorin for also adding the 2015 and 2016 QCBC trophies and medals to the museum. Also the main QCBC  trophy as well!!!
Left of the QCBC 2014 trophy cup is a the original .5 Big Bro prototype made by Trango. Thanks Malcolm Daly for the donation and also the #5 prototype big bro at the top left corner of the display case. Both made in 2003. Randy Leavitt donated a pair of his long pants to the museum that he wore on many routes he climbed in the 1980s. 

Red Pants

Randy Leavitt
Robert Olson with Randy Leavitt, sporting the red Leavitt climbing pants at the 2011 Outdoor Retailers Show.
On the top right side of the display is two large Valley Giant cam lobes donated by Tom Kasper. One lobe is made of aluminum and the other lobe is made of magnesium. The wood #16 Valley Giant cam is still my most favorite cam device in the museum.

Valley Giants made by Tom Kasper
The Kuate cam was donated to the museum from Jim Bridwell. While climbing the Totem Pole in Monument Valley AZ, Jim noticed this cam and creatively retrieved it.

The Lowe Split Cam and Cam Nut are the two of the first camming units ever made for rock climbing. Created by Greg Lowe in 1973.
Metolius sent me a handful of cam lobes to put in the museum, and some cam lobe progression plates. 
Thank You Metolius!!!

The El Capitan patch is from the 1970s. There is also a "Climber" patch and a "Rappelling" patch in this patch set.

John Yates created the Big Dudes cam units in the 1980's Thanks John for also donating a few #9 Big Dudes which were only created for a project Green Peace was working on. I donated two of these #9 cam monsters to other museums to preserve the history. #6 Big Dude signed by John Yates in 2000.

Yates Big Dudes
Kevin Daniels donated the very large Fixe Company cams. What I love about these cams is that they were designed with a trigger lock which keeps the lobes compressed so while climbing they would not be as big on the rack and would not catch on rock shelves etc. Kevin also donated the Fixe Encaix device and the other Encaix was donated by Stephane Pennequin. 

The Vis a Roc large crack unit was donated by Tom Taber.
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Camrad cam units were imported into the USA by the Canadian CoOp. It was a sneaky way to get around the Wild Country Friend Patent. The Camrads were made in Korea, then imported to Canada, then to the USA.
The plastic climber dude is a radio controlled climber that climbs up a grey plastic climbing wall. It is kinda tricky where the hands and legs move independently. A cool toy but unfortunately it would break easy as it kept falling and hitting the ground. Donated by Climbing Magazine at a OR Show.
Not made by Evolv. 
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The Magnus Cam units were created by John Fowler in 1981 in Arizona. Two sizes available. One was donated by Glen Dickenson, and the smaller size which is a prototype was donated by Jim Waugh.