I have been having a hard time finding some surgical tubing to temp install my guides. Can some one point me in the right direction?

mudhole

You can also use dental bands (tiny rubber bands) that you can obtain from any orthodontist. When I have stepped into an office and asked, they were always provided at no charge ... I even got a customer out of it once when the doctor found out why I needed them. They come in two main sizes - A or light 1/8" and B or heavy 3/16". They work great and you don't have to do any snipping, they are already bands. For small fly rods they are useful IMO, anything larger and I use tape. Mud Hole sells tape down to 1/8".

1/8" tape works great for me. I am working on a 2, 3, and 4 weight fly rods and the 1/8" tape worked great. I do plan on trying the tubing soon though. I also heard that hobby lobby or someone like that sells the stuff. Haven't lookd there yet.

Matt White

Any medical supply company. Most cities are home to one - the kind of place that rents wheelchairs, has braces and bandages, convalescing aids, etc. Check your local Yellow Pages.

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I get mine at the hobby store - gas line for model airplanes.

I get mine from McMaster-Carr

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
John in Wethersfield, CT

I get mine from an Archery Shop. The little tubing used to straighten a bow string peep sight.

J.B.Hunt
Bowling Green, KY

About the only thing left to add is "castration bands"... available at most farm co-ops, they are cheerio sized/shaped rubber bands and will hold nearly anything.

Clyde Thomas

I have checked 2 medical supply places locally with no luck. WHen I was into RC cars the gas line used was silicone, would that not be bad to be rubbing all over the blank/guidefoot? I remembered that I have some jig skirt collars that I might use until I can find some tubing locally or order something else from Mudhole to justify shipping costs.

In Western Washingtonfishing tackle shops have them. They are call drift lead or pencile lead tubing holders.
Good Wraps Bob

Clyde Thomas Wrote:
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> About the only thing left to add is "castration
> bands"... available at most farm co-ops, they are
> cheerio sized/shaped rubber bands and will hold
> nearly anything.

Green Cheerios! I know them well!

Do you use the "aplication tool" to put them on? I have always been too afraid of crushing the blanks to use them on anything else but future steers. Those things have some real power.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2008 07:14PM by Erick Krotzer.

Just check the @#$%& site and enter surgical tubing and you'll get a bunch of listings.

They also make your voice a much higher pitch.

Ohio Rod Builders

Canton, Ohio

Have no idea if they are silicon or not but I have been using the tubing from model/hobby stores for many years with no problems.

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

Andy,

I bought mine from Reef Scuba Accessories (www.reefscuba. com). They have surgical tubing in all sizes. The pricing is good and the service pronpt.

Stan

Nice folks to deal with:

[www.reefscuba.com]

Take care
Roger

Up here in W. WA we pay about 3 cents a foot for the small tubs and 10 cent for the 3/4 inch tubs
Good Wraps Bob

Go to sponsors on the left, Jann's Netcraft to get tubing for guides.