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Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 11/13/2012, 5:45 pm
In Response To: Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord (Scott Fitzgerrell)

: Anybody got ratios for sliders--rules of thumb, anything like that?
: The lines get looser as you move the sliders together, clearly,
: but how do you figure things out so that they're really tight
: when the sliders are spread apart? What keeps the sliders from
: creeping back together under load?

: I'd guess you'd just to with trial and error on the boat itself,
: testing with hold-down items of various sizes--but still I
: wonder. All enlightenment appreciated.

Bungies Scott, bungies :-)

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: threading deck lines (Bungee)
Don betz -- 11/11/2012, 5:18 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: threading deck lines (Bungee)
Ken Blanton -- 11/11/2012, 7:58 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: threading deck lines (Bungee)
charles Robinson -- 11/11/2012, 8:40 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: threading deck lines (Bungee)
mick allen -- 11/11/2012, 9:21 pm
also
mick allen -- 11/12/2012, 1:00 am
another technique
mick allen -- 11/12/2012, 2:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: threading deck lines (Bungee)
Etienne Muller -- 11/12/2012, 4:38 am
Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Brian Nystrom -- 11/12/2012, 6:35 am
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Jeff Horton -- 11/12/2012, 9:13 am
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Brian Nystrom -- 11/12/2012, 12:15 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Etienne Muller -- 11/12/2012, 1:28 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Brian Nystrom -- 11/13/2012, 7:13 am
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Scott Fitzgerrell -- 11/13/2012, 12:23 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Brian Nystrom -- 11/13/2012, 1:10 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Etienne Muller -- 11/13/2012, 5:45 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Bill Hamm -- 11/14/2012, 1:09 am
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Mike Bielski -- 11/13/2012, 9:16 pm
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Don Betz -- 11/14/2012, 10:08 am
Re: Don't waste your time with bungee cord
Jeff Horton -- 11/12/2012, 6:24 pm