What is this stuff? I've found exactly one secret knot that won't pull apart for tying ends together. Try it.
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12 years ago
What is this stuff? I've found exactly one secret knot that won't pull apart for tying ends together. Try it.
It is expanded PTFE just like the material they make their gaskets from. I have always been amazed at W.L. Gore; this company has built a whole range of businesses around creative uses of basically the same stuff:
If the above did not make any sense, I just saw that W.L. Gore sold the Glide brand to Procter and Gamble in 2003.
What might that knot be, pray tell -- and why would one need a bend for dental floss?
My candidates, if I had a bit of this stuff to play with, would be: hunter's bend blood knot nail knot
My knot is none of your guesses (although I haven't tried yours)
This stuff is so slippery, the only way to stretch it tight is to have a loop of it.
Richard, can i hijack your thread? Knot query for slick shit.
Speaking for slippery hard tie stuff - Suffix braided fishing line. I've learned to tie on a hook with an improved clinch followed by several half hitches, then an overhand loop to keep the line from pulling through.
But, I have mono filament backer at the bottom of the roll of suffix. If a fish ever spools me to this backer, I'm FUBAR. I know of no way to tie trylene to Suffix that holds.
Karl
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I think that there is a better reference in US patent 5518012. See the Background section:
Let me reveal what I find works to bend Glide floss: this is based on the fisherman's knot:
Now this is a bit tricky to manipulate in this slippery and filmy floss, but if you can get it done, it usually works.
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