Plastic/rubber tubing...

MikeyJ

MikeyJ

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Ok, this could probably be better placed in WSS, but I always prefer a Beckerhead perspective before moving across the forums, so...

Working in a Lab and being a Respiratory Therapy student, I come across a lot of plastic or rubber tubing (oxygen masks, nasal cannula's, etc.). I can't help but think that a few feet could come in quite useful in a PSK or something.

Let's see how creative ya'll can be. I would love to hear some of your ideas on how you would use said equipment whilst in the field (or urban environment). Examples could include makeshift water filters, tourniquets for first aid, etc.

Let's see what ya got, Beckerheads...
 
Oh, it works great. You can make slingshots, Hawiian sling spears for fishing, it can be used in a med perspective for sever injuries, makes a great tinder for prolonging a fire, and it could be used for motion engines for traps. I have seen that done quite a bit.

Moose
 
I've actually used it with success to make fishing spears and slingshots. For that reason alone it's great to have 3-4 feet of it in your kit. Also like moose said, there's not a better tourniquet to be had than rubber tubing. Can be used as a carry system for water by tying a knot in one end and holding the other under swift moving water. It works for spring loaded snare traps, if there are no small saplings to bend over. And possibly the easiest use is as A drinking straw to reach shallow, or hidden water sources.
Works great in a solar distillation still, where one end can be kept in the cup under the plastic sheeting, so you don't have to disassemble the whole setup just to get a drink. Also it could be used to secure a tarp doorway and still be able to open it without having to undo cordage or anything.

Not many things found in nature have elastic properties that we can use, so it comes in handy to have a small length of it.
 
Haze240 said:
Works great in a solar distillation still, where one end can be kept in the cup under the plastic sheeting, so you don't have to disassemble the whole setup just to get a drink.
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Excellent!! Great idea for the plastic oxygen tubing!! That type of tubing has virtually zero elastic properties, so it can't be used as slingshot or sling spears. That is definitely better suited for the rubber tubing!
 
get a 3' length of 3/8" OD tubing, shove a 4" piece of brass tubing into the end, and use for blowing air into your fire to really get it going, without getting face burns....:cool:
 
Some really great suggestions here. Best thing I could come up with was mainlining bourbon.

I always have some on overnighters because I carry an MSR water filter. It's good to think about alternate uses of the tubing.
 
Hmm, the solar still idea is good. It could be an out line for a gravity filter too.

Maybe a condensing line for backwoods distilling.
 
just the thing for stealing er borrowing gas from a nearby vehicle for fire starting :>
 
If it is surgical tubing then you can have at least a few uses for it. I made my slingshot band with about a foot and a half of some.

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Here is the video I made showing how I did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvbkgQHxc0
 
I know. Last time I did though all the rascally rabbits were hiding and didn't want to come out to play (hahahaha). I do need to shorten the bands a little bit. I have some hidden power in the length they are now.
 
MyWifeThinksImCrazy said:
If it is surgical tubing then you can have at least a few uses for it. I made my slingshot band with about a foot and a half of some.

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Here is the video I made showing how I did it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnvbkgQHxc0
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didn't see the part where you attach to a stick?

the attachment to the pocket was nice and neat. i use that technique when threading rope onto itself (kern/mantle) with a fid.

for speed, i might lubricate the pliers, closed, and stuff them into the tube end and out the hole, open them up, grab the free tube end, and pull. speedy. works with rope.

nice.
 
Bladite said:
didn't see the part where you attach to a stick?

the attachment to the pocket was nice and neat. i use that technique when threading rope onto itself (kern/mantle) with a fid.

for speed, i might lubricate the pliers, closed, and stuff them into the tube end and out the hole, open them up, grab the free tube end, and pull. speedy. works with rope.

nice.
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Thanks. the only thing I did to attach it to the "Y" branch was tie a couple overhand knots and the tie hitches over it and down the branch. I didn't show that in the video though. I might have to do that some time, make a video on how to actually attach it to the branch.
 
Super nice ideas! I can get surgical tubing in the lab, but all I can get at school is plastic tubing (non-elastic). The two will definitely serve separate purposes. I like the idea of makeshift weaponry with the rubber tubing, and the "solar still straw" with the O2 tubing.

Ya'll are a crafty bunch of sonzagunz...
 
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