Excellent! Hemostats....It's one of those "Why didn't I think of that?"
notes. My fat fingers would always need about 1" of tag end which I cut off
and nobody mentioned hemostats to me before.
Thanks...!
Rick Pangell
Editor of "The Max-Out" Newsletter of
The Magnificent Mountain Men FF Club of Colorado
In a message dated 3/8/2011 7:55:30 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
rbharlan_at_comcast.net writes:
Something that I have been doing lately, and I don't claim to have
invented it, is to use hemostats to hold the ends of the rubber together. Follow
Bill's technique but clamp the hemostat to just cover the ends of the rubber
strands. Then pull the knot up to the hemostat tightly by spreading the
two strands. Put in a second knot and pull it up to the first. When the
hemostats are released, just the right amount of loose ends are left and no
tweaking to get the right weight is needed.
Ray
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen" <wdgowen_at_...>
wrote:
>
> I never had much success with this idea - probably has something to do
with saliva quality. I lube lightly before tying then use two overhand knots.
>
> Old story but maybe some haven't heard it yet:
>
> To make an exact weight motor, cut strip to desired width but a little
over the desired weight, lube, put on o-rings, put on scale, cut off strip
to exact desired weight. Tie one overhand knot as close as possible to end
of motor, then spread the strands to move the knot as close as possible to
the end of the motor. Tie a second overhand (or underhand) knot inside of
the first one and spread the strands to move the second knot tight against
the first one.
>
> This procedure looks brutal but I've never heard of anyone having
problems from it.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Neil Dennis
> To: construction Indoor
> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:02 AM
> Subject: [Indoor_Construction] knotting rubber
>
>
>
> Just wondering, when I show the students know tying, I have them soak
> the knot with saliva before pulling it tight and lubing, rarely get a
> break at the knot and it really pulls up tight. Anyone here do this ?
>
> wombat
>
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