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High quality, stiff Teflon tubing for CA application

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Bob Hunt · Mar 04, 2009 04:44 PM

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Hi all:

I have the opportunity to purchase a fairly large roll of very high quality Teflon tubing. This is the type of tubing that is used to apply CA glue accurately right from the bottle.

I've used lots of Teflon tubing in my building over the years, and almost all that I have tried is fairly limp and when it is pressed on - as when applying glue along a seam between a rib and the sheeting - it folds back and makes the gluing process difficult. I'm also having trouble finding any tubing of this type in hobby shops anymore. To few builders are asking for it apparently, and the hobby shops have simply stopped ordering it.

I just received a sample of some that really holds its shape when pressed into a joint or seam. It is stiffer than any that I have come across before, and I like it - a lot! It also does not clog often like the other tubing I've tried does. Here the rub: I have to buy this stuff in 500 foot long rolls in order to get the price down to a reasonable amount per foot. The question I have is this. How many builders out there would be interested in purchasing this type of tubing from me in 4 foot lengths for $5.00? This is about as low as I can go on the price and still make it worthwhile doing. I can buy it in shorter rolls, but the price per foot goes way, way up.

If anyone is interested in this offer, please email me at: [email protected]. or phone me at: 610-746-0106.

This transaction would not be through my Robin's View Production company, but rathet a personal venture. If not enough are interested, I'll simply buy a much shorter roll of it and bite the bullet on cost and just use it for my personal modeling.
Bob Hunt

rootbeard · Mar 04, 2009 09:12 PM

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Bob,
Can you show us a picture of how it works. I might bite at 5 bucks.

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James Mills · Mar 04, 2009 11:35 PM

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Bob,

Count me in. Sent you an email.

James

Bob Hunt · Mar 11, 2009 09:22 PM

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Hi all:

The Teflon tubing that is the subject of this thread is here; it was delivered today. I just filled all the existing orders, so those of you who sent in your money and your SASEs will be receiving your tubing very soon.

For those who would like to get in on this deal, I have quite a bit of it left. The deal is this: The tubing is priced at $5.00 for 4 feet of tubing. Send an SASE and the appropriate amount of cash and I will coil that amount of tubing and put it in the envelope and drop it in the mail.

This is very high-quality stuff that doesn't clog easily and seems to last forever. Being genuine Teflon, the CA that is left in the tube after a gluing operation has very little resistance to flowing back into the bottle (I always give the bottle a light rap on the table when I set it down and this starts the CA flowing back to the bottle). Also, this is fairly stiff tubing and will allow you to put some pressure on it while gluing without having it collapse or fold back.

If you have any question, please give me a call at: 610-746-0106. Again, I'm not running this deal through my Robin's View Productions company. It is probably a one time personal deal, as I will keep enough of this tubing to last me the rest of my life.

For those of you who are going to VSC. I will have a good supply of it with me there in four foot lenghts.

Later - Bob Hunt

MichaelDuffy · Mar 23, 2009 07:17 PM

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Bob,

I would be interested in purchasing some from you when i order the Caprice wing.

Thank You

Michael Duffy
520-403-0927

Tempest · Apr 03, 2009 12:58 AM

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Hi Bob. Congrats on your "once again" winning Classic at VSC.
I' will cough up a fiver for the teflon tubing when you get in in.

Thanks,
Bart
Tempest