Shock cord
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Topic: Shock cord
Posted By: dics
Subject: Shock cord
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 3:44pm
| My biggest nightmare. Each time I cut it it falls apart. Heating up the end with a lighter only ensures sticky rubber for the next 2 weeks. So help is needed. So far the best solution I have come up with is to use duck tape around the cord and then cut through that. I then seal the ends with superglue. But I still need to leave the duck tape on which looks a bit crap. What does everyone else do?? |
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Posted By: Kev M
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 4:28pm
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I melt it with a lighter and then whip it. ------------- Successfully confusing ambition with ability since 1980. |
Posted By: Neptune
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 4:36pm
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self Amalgamating tape. ------------- Musto Skiff and Solo sailor |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 4:57pm
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Cut the rubber back a good inch or more before doing the end melting so you are only doing the cover, not the rubber. But when I remember these days I buy heat shrink tube from Maplin and do my rope and shockcord ends with that rather than tape. Much neater.
Must say if that's your biggest nightmare you must have a remarkably quiet and peaceful life: I envy you. Mind you now we mention dreams/nightmares last night I had one in which I was racing an A class catamaran, but helming it sitting out from the handles on the launching trolley just in front of the bow. Not sure whether we were racing on water or grass... Won the race though [grin]. Goodness only knows what my subconcious is trying to tell me with that one. |
Posted By: RS400atC
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 5:21pm
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Adhesive lined heat shrink is good for this. Put it on and shrink it before cutting the cord. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 10 Apr 12 at 6:49pm
If I've got a loop on the end, and I normally have, I put it over both the standing part and the rope end so it makes the whole plot neater. With shock cord I think I'd slide it over the shock cord before I cut the end neatly, then slide it down so it overlaps the shockcord by several so when I shrink it down the end of teh shring comes down to smaller than the rubber thickness. |
Posted By: dics
Date Posted: 11 Apr 12 at 8:48am
Thanks. Heat shrink seems the way to go. Yes I lead a very sheltered life. My other nightmare was wondereing which colour to repaint my knomes.
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