thwakers

I don't know if anyone is interested?Anyhow - I'm not sure if we invented them or not, in case we did...?They are a method of fastening looms and other things that tend to have minds of their own!They are better than gaffa, sticky tapes, ties and other tempory devises I have found so far.Completly reuseable, cost efficeint and don't require knives, teeth or pionty sharp things in order to undo them.Most techs would have the know how to make and operate them, plus they don't have sticky and gummy residue that has to be cleaned from cables afterwards.Get a cars tyres inner tube, thats had the flick of course, lay it flat and cut it into strips that will form it's own ring (about 10 to 20mm wide). Procure some dowelling cut into 40mm lenghts or there abouts ( you can buy a pack of these at the hardware stores). Using a 'larks head' knot tie the strips, which have become rubber rings, at the centre of the dowell (the larks head is same knot you use at the heads of cloths, boarders or legs - make the rubber ring into a double loop at one end and pass the dowell through it) That's a thwacker.To use it for say cable looms on light battens, pipes, bars and booms. Hold the dowell in one hand and just wrap the rubber ring over the cable and bar with the other hand, by putting the loop you have left at the end over the dowell this will hold it all into place securely.The reson they are know as thwackers, is because of the sound they make when the rubber slips out of one hand and connects with the other - so be carefull it can bite!If you have not used one - try it - Im sure you will make more.If you know a better way or further help - press the button and let me know.Joe "Gaa'ffa" Mccabe