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Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
By:Ric Moodie
Date: 4/19/2011, 11:10 am
In Response To: Re: Material: joining shock cord ends (Jay Babina)

: Years back there was an article on that but I can't find it.

: Basically: you peel back the skin using a sharp pointed tool to
: help. The woven skin stretches and unwinds a bit. You do this to
: both ends. You cut cut back the rubber core on one end and push
: the exposed core on the other end in the skin of the opposing
: side. Or wrap the skin over the other core end (which ever works
: best). I guess then you can saturate the skin with glue, epoxy
: or anything and cover the joint with shrink wrap tube.

Yet another method that was on the forum a while back involved getting a couple of inches of the sort of plastic insulation used on electrical cord. Pull out the contents so you just have the empty plastic/rubber tube. Clamp the end of the shock cord in a vice and stretch it to make it go thinner. Saturate the end with Krazy Glue. Now when you release the tension you can slip it into the plastic insulation. More Krazy Glue. Do exactly the same to the other end. It works well, I have used it, none have come undone.

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Material: joining shock cord ends
Ian Cummins -- 4/18/2011, 8:21 pm
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
Scott Baxter -- 4/18/2011, 9:04 pm
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Jay Babina -- 4/19/2011, 9:19 am
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Ric Moodie -- 4/19/2011, 11:10 am
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Ross Leidy -- 4/19/2011, 12:25 pm
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mtkayak (Mike Trutwin) -- 4/19/2011, 1:11 pm
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Ian Cummins -- 4/22/2011, 5:51 pm
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StephenHJ -- 4/22/2011, 7:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2011, 8:01 am
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Steve Hill -- 4/23/2011, 4:15 am
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Kim Haubert -- 4/26/2011, 1:21 pm