Date codes on gear

Is there a resource for checking manufacture dates on gear by using the CE code?
 I have a set of 10 secondhand but never used Black Diamond quick draws I’m told are only a couple years old but I’d like to verify the manufacture date.
Code on the draws is CE 0639. Code on the Biners is CE0082
 Does that certification code include manufacturing date info?
I’ve searched the web but came up short.

A CE stamp is like a UL stamp where as it means it just passes certain specifications for importing to (pretty much) the EU. Thus not a date code/gear identifier.

If the nylon/dyneema looks fine, then it is fine. The bieners are going to be fine until they disintegrate or wear heavily due to friction via rope.

The CE number is the lab that certified the product

With BD gear there will be a four digit stamp on the gear that provides the exact date of manufacturing. A code of 3100 would be the 100th day of 2013. (You should be able to tell the year easily. A 2016 C4 looks much different than an 2006.). If the stamp includes an A it was manufactured in Asia.

With soft goods you should be able to visually inspect and when in doubt just get the gear reslung or get new dog bones. I don’t know the codes for other manufacturers but based on a best guess Metolius stamps look like they are month/year. All hard goods will have a date stamp of some kind due to GMP requirements.

Jim Titt wrote: The CE number is the lab that certified the product

Huh, I never knew that! I always assumed it was like an iso stamp where the numbers referred to the document that outlined the saftey/testing of the equipment.

Sawyer W wrote:

Huh, I never knew that! I always assumed it was like an iso stamp where the numbers referred to the document that outlined the saftey/testing of the equipment.

The number after EN is the standard number.

BrokenChairs ~ wrote: With BD gear there will be a four digit stamp on the gear that provides the exact date of manufacturing. A code of 3100 would be the 100th day of 2013. (You should be able to tell the year easily. A 2016 C4 looks much different than an 2006.). If the stamp includes an A it was manufactured in Asia.

I don’t know about BD but many manufacturers use two digits for the year and two digits for which week of that year it was made. 

Old thread. But I’m curious how to read the date code. I have some older slings that appeared to be from 2017. I bought a few slings last year that appear to have 2017 on them as well. Then I bought one a few weeks ago that has 2017 on it as well. How do we know the date of manufacture?

2017 is the year of the standard. Your slings are from 2022 and 2020.

DMM has a video showing how to read the sling: https://dmmwales.com/knowledge/june-2021/slings-rope-inspection

Mammut has it in the manual: https://static.mammut.com/file/User_Manual_HI-MAM-023-5_Slings_PRINT.pdf

Austin Donisan wrote:

2017 is the year of the standard. Your slings are from 2022 and 2020.

DMM has a video showing how to read the sling: https://dmmwales.com/knowledge/june-2021/slings-rope-inspection

Mammut has it in the manual: https://static.mammut.com/file/User_Manual_HI-MAM-023-5_Slings_PRINT.pdf

Thanks Austin. That was faster than my internet search.