Thread: fusing ends of latex tubing
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polycord
A couple of people have already mentioned that polycord is great for this application. I agree, it holds together really well when you fuse the ends properly, and it makes a great ball transport belt. Better than latex tubing imho.

I remember back in 2002? when one of the east coast teams (19 maybe?) had a cool hot-wire polycord cutter. The hot wire (hooked up to a battery) melted the cord and you could then immediately push the two ends together to fuse them. Does anyone remember the specifics of that device?

When we tried to make a belt out of latex tubing before, we tightly wrapped thin twine around the ends of the tubing which were pushed on to a short cylindrical device (I *think* we used a bolt?). It didn't work all that well...

Ken