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Originally Posted by jtkwest
thats what i thought, but i figured i would check with you guys before i took a chance. incidently, it seems like there is rubber cement maybe on my riffe bands, under the shrink tubing? if so, do you use it?
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I don't. I tie a constrictor knot, go around to the other side and tie a simple overhand knot, then back to the first side and tie another overhand knot. With waxed whipping twine, it seems to hold fine. But lately, just to make sure, I've been putting a drop of liquid electrical tape or Super Glue on the last knot.
When I first started making bands, I used to put a drop of glue from hot glue gun on the knot. Then when you apply the heat, the glue melts and runs all over the whipping twine and even out from under the shrink tubing. That worked too.
BTW, a couple of times I've screwed up and used the heat gun on the high setting, and the portion of the rubber where I had tapered it started to sizzle, but it didn't seem fatal. I went back to low heat as soon as I noticed it, and the shrink tubing was OK. I went ahead and used the band with no apparent problem.
