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Super-strong Blu-tack?

Postby SamGurney » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:09 pm

Hi,
On the Lincoln's Best Boon's website there is a package of 'super-sticky sticky tack', for the boons, which apparently is very difficult to track down out of the US.

I was wondering if there is any equivalent in the UK like a super-strong blu tack or something. Google has been dissapointingly unenligthening. I have found in the past that 'sticki-dots', which as small adhesive blobs, to not work as well as I thought they might.

If not, is this super sticky-sticky tack that super sticky?

Oh how I long for the days when we can have surgery on our thumbs to implant a retractable swami-gimmick :(
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Postby IAIN » Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:12 pm

syrup tape is supposed to be good...never used it....

by syrup - i mean the rhyming slang...

i just bought a big old block of the stuff from lincoln when i ordered a back-up kit...
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Postby SamGurney » Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:36 pm

IAIN wrote:syrup tape is supposed to be good...never used it....

by syrup - i mean the rhyming slang...

i just bought a big old block of the stuff from lincoln when i ordered a back-up kit...


So what is it that you use then? I am seriously considering just painting one skin colour and supergluing it to my thumb.
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Postby spooneythegoon » Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:42 pm

Super glue + thumb = nasty situation with the only real solution being a scalpel, steady hands and a high pain tolerance...
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Postby IAIN » Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:24 pm

i use the stuff lincoln sells, i trust that he must use it for a reason...therefore, i use that same stuff....it doesnt let me down...

though, saying all that - i have had the lincoln usurped by another, but its a friend's design and he's not selling them yet...
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Postby SamGurney » Sat Sep 04, 2010 9:55 am

thanks. I'm presuming that when you say 'yet' you mean that he will be sometime in the future?

ps (I was joking about supergluing my finger btw. I'm not that retarded just yet)
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Postby IAIN » Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:08 am

i don't know...he's a busy fella anyways...

i've been road testing them for quite a while now, and i am a bit of a swami addict...his are the best for me, at least...

lincolns are obviously none too shabby either, or the somerdin boons...
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Postby spooneythegoon » Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:56 am

SamGurney wrote:I was joking about supergluing my finger btw. I'm not that retarded just yet


Oh, sorry, you can never tell on the internet :lol:
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Postby SamGurney » Sat Sep 04, 2010 5:44 pm

spooneythegoon wrote:
SamGurney wrote:I was joking about supergluing my finger btw. I'm not that retarded just yet


Oh, sorry, you can never tell on the internet :lol:


I hate that. Just so people can tell, I am not joking, I actually hate that part of the internet. :)
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