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  1. Newsgroups: sci.engr.mech
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au
  3. From: sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
  4. Subject: Re: Looking for Huge Rubber Bands
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec21.044157.21338@newsroom.utas.edu.au>
  6. Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au
  7. Organization: University of Tasmania
  8. References: <142000001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
  9. Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:41:57 GMT
  10. Lines: 33
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  12. In article <142000001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>,... writes:
  13. > 
  14. > Does anyone know where I could purchase rubber belts with the following
  15. > characteristics:
  16. > 
  17. >      - 1.5 inches wide, rubber thickness about 0.1 inches
  18. > 
  19. >      - The diameter of the belt should be about 150 mm.
  20. > 
  21. >      - The material should be ozone resistant.
  22. > 
  23. >      - Surgical rubber would be desireable.
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  25. I used to use that sort of thing when I was a kid for making shanghis or gings
  26. (Ithink you call them sling shots). You know a Y shaped stick with rubbers oops
  27. sorry elastics connected to a bit of leather in the middle. I cut them out 
  28. of old car tyre innertubes!
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  33. | Tony Sprent                                             |
  34. | Department of Surveying and Spatial Information Science | 
  35. | University of Tasmania                                  |     
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  42. | email  sprent@surv.utas.edu.au                          |
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