[MR] WTB: Friction Tape

[Sir Iain Menzies]

en route to wastelands last weekend I found some at a gas station near the
site...
oddly enough before I only found the non-sticky variety at the sports isle
in Wal-Mart.
Very good sized roll of the sticky stuff for about $2.00

Sometimes you just get lucky...  I would recommend checking the following
places:

Tool sections (as this is often used to re-wrap tool handles)
Tape Sections (often hardware stores put all types of tape in one section)
Paint Sections (again, Lowe's and other stores like doing this)
Sports Section (usually listed there as Athletic Tape)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Siegfried Sebastian Faust" <eliwhite at bellatlantic.net>
To: "Towey, Brian" <cbt4489 at glaxowellcome.com>; <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] WTB: Friction Tape


> 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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