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Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
By:Steve Hill
Date: 4/23/2011, 4:15 am
In Response To: Re: Material: joining shock cord ends (Ian Cummins)

: Mike, I followed your directions and it worked great. Now if I
: could get my fingers apart ;).
: I think it looks fine with just the webbing so I'm not going to
: coat it or try shrink tube. BTW the only shrink tube I could
: find around here was at Radio Shack and you had to buy an
: assortment of colors and sizes for 7 bucks........not worth it
: for two joints.
: Thanks to all for the help.

: Ian

Ian, next time, :) you may find you can get heat shrink tubing in the electrical section of a larger chandlery/boat equipment supplier. Often have it available in packets of a few pieces 3-6" long in a variety of sizes. I prefer the adhesive lined type though it does seem to be slightly more bulky - maybe due to the glue layer, but it also seems a bit higher quality in general so may just be thicker to start with.

Steve Hill

Messages In This Thread

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
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
Ian Cummins -- 4/22/2011, 5:51 pm
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
StephenHJ -- 4/22/2011, 7:42 pm
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
Bill Hamm -- 4/23/2011, 8:01 am
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
Steve Hill -- 4/23/2011, 4:15 am
Re: Material: joining shock cord ends
Kim Haubert -- 4/26/2011, 1:21 pm