"First USA company to create climbing holds for public sale."
Powroll The Wall - April 1986 ad
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MK - Wow awesome info! Going back to the beginning, the kit you sold included some wood block screw-on hand holds? But the wall kit did not include and T-nuts for holds. I have you as first holds mfg in the USA for The Roks, but I am thinking this first holds may go further back to The Wall 1986.
KO - They were just 4” long 1x2” with two holes that bolted on the wall with 2 carriage bolts and wing nuts on the back. We didn’t even know something like a t-nut existed and actually envisioned inventing something like a t-nut… and we of course never contemplated a single bolt attachment because we just figured they’d spin… (so our invented version of a t-nut incorporate some locking mechanism…). To clarify - the holds were just 1x2” dimensional lumber - which is about 3/4” x 1 1/2”? … actual dimension. The classic 20mm edge of today’s finger board testing.
KO - They were just 4” long 1x2” with two holes that bolted on the wall with 2 carriage bolts and wing nuts on the back. We didn’t even know something like a t-nut existed and actually envisioned inventing something like a t-nut… and we of course never contemplated a single bolt attachment because we just figured they’d spin… (so our invented version of a t-nut incorporate some locking mechanism…). To clarify - the holds were just 1x2” dimensional lumber - which is about 3/4” x 1 1/2”? … actual dimension. The classic 20mm edge of today’s finger board testing.
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Powroll - roks
Powroll created a new line of holds in 1987 named "roks." The roks holds were made of resin and could be screwed onto the wall in countless positions. 
Powroll The Wall
- November 1987 advertisement |
Powroll, The Wall
- February 1988 advertisement |
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