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Re: Best Way to Tie Off Surgical Tubing
Hose clamps might be the way to go for a COTS component. The ability to have them adjust tensioning with minimal effort is a solid way to go. Also, replacements for new surgical tubing in the same clamps would take much less time than with zipties.
The only issue I could see with them is that they would be too sharp and the recoil might sever the tubing which would drastically increase performance overtime. However, adding some material to reduce the catching of that edge can certainly be done.
In addition, clamping the tubing after a point where it has attained some friction is much better than to the final stretched position.
Edit: Apparently the end of my third sentence was cut off.
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Last edited by rcmolloy : 23-01-2014 at 02:44.
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