dr frankenstyle
Rock Crawler
I needed some small, slim bungees for the cover I made for my boat ("non-crawler" section ;-)) and I just wasn't happy with what I could find out there. So I got to thinking how the 1:1s are made and what would make a "scale" one. I got an idea and grabbed this arsenal.
I've done electrical work for years (still do some) and I have a bag of the small orange wire-nuts, and I remembered seeing the little wire coil inside, and so I took the heavy cutters and split one open and got the cone-spring out...
then I clipped off a few rings to get to the right size, both for the hook and the elastic cord. (I took off 1 ring from the small end and 4 or 5 from the big end) and with a bit of "artistic" bending, you end up with a mini hook and coil...
then I used some small, round elastic cord fed thru each collar (getting it into the small-end-first is a bear), tied it off at length...
and "presto" you have what I think is a more true-to-"scale" bungees. Here are a couple next to one that I bought on ebay.
Here is one installed on my boat cover.
and one that I painted the hooks black, although I like the stainless look for my boat.
The bigger ones were fine to use as hold-downs for the boat ('til I make something better) but I wanted something smaller ... and this is what I came up with. 8)
Hope it's helpful, I know there are other ways to make them too.
I've done electrical work for years (still do some) and I have a bag of the small orange wire-nuts, and I remembered seeing the little wire coil inside, and so I took the heavy cutters and split one open and got the cone-spring out...
then I clipped off a few rings to get to the right size, both for the hook and the elastic cord. (I took off 1 ring from the small end and 4 or 5 from the big end) and with a bit of "artistic" bending, you end up with a mini hook and coil...
then I used some small, round elastic cord fed thru each collar (getting it into the small-end-first is a bear), tied it off at length...
and "presto" you have what I think is a more true-to-"scale" bungees. Here are a couple next to one that I bought on ebay.
Here is one installed on my boat cover.
and one that I painted the hooks black, although I like the stainless look for my boat.
The bigger ones were fine to use as hold-downs for the boat ('til I make something better) but I wanted something smaller ... and this is what I came up with. 8)
Hope it's helpful, I know there are other ways to make them too.
