[MR] WTB: Friction Tape

[Siegfried Sebastian Faust]

Naaa, you are just looking in the 'wrong place'.  Head to a sports store 
and find the hockey stick section.  You will find it there ... also 
sometimes near the baseball bats.

Usually two kinds.
1) The just simple cloth tape kind you are talking about.
2) The tar coated really sticky stuff (My personal favorite.  When you put 
a fresh layer of this stuff on and grip the weapon real tight ... after a 
good bout of fighting, you need a friend to help pull the thing off your 
glove!  (Of course, after that first time it is reduced to 'nicely sticky')

Siegfried


At 08:37 AM 6/11/2001 -0400, Towey, Brian wrote:
>Friends and neighbors-
>
>I have searched my local hardware stores in vain for black cloth tape, which
>I always called "friction tape."  Young salesman just eye me like I'm asking
>for buggy whips, and the oldsters get a misty, long-ago look when I mention
>the stuff.  Can it really be so old fashioned?  Am I getting to be that
>old?!
>
>I want it for wrapping hand grips, and I find it hard to believe that nobody
>anywhere still makes it.  Do any of you know if the stuff is still made and
>where I might buy it?

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