Hockey Wrap for Clamp Handles

[gee-dub]

I crave your pardon if you actually use this method in a sports situation since I may be murdering it . I have had a few folks comment on the tape-wrap for my clamp handles so here you go (many YT videos of professionals doing this better than I do).

Tag the tape to the handle and spin the roll to create a "rope".

Wind the rope around the handle in a spiral from the tag to the opposite end.

Cover the rope spiral in flat tape (this is one continuous run of tape).

Complete the covering operation and wind back a wrap or two before cutting off from the roll.

Ta-Da!

[krtwood]

Slight hijack but here's my alternative

Epoxy a bolt into the handle and use a driver or ratchet to tighten to your heart's content.  Allows you to go nuts on the clamp even if you've got them tight up against each other.  

[gee-dub]

@krtwood - love it!

[drzaius]

Thanks for posting. I'm getting to the point where my hands are getting a bit arthritic and this will make things easier.

[pkinneb]

I learned this from Rob Cosman several years back and it works great!! Having said that @gee-dub you know you can by red hockey tape right? Sorry my OCD 

[SimonR]

you probably want to stick (pun intended) to white hockey tape the coloured one (especially the black tends to shed for a lack of a better word gooey and slightly abrasive residue a lot more. That stuff eats through the leather palm of hockey gloves so I'd hate to have any transferred to a freshly glued panel

[gee-dub]

On 2/26/2024 at 4:09 PM, SimonR said:

you probably want to stick (pun intended) to white hockey tape the coloured one (especially the black tends to shed for a lack of a better word gooey and slightly abrasive residue a lot more. That stuff eats through the leather palm of hockey gloves so I'd hate to have any transferred to a freshly glued panel

The white I was able to pick up locally seems to structurally fail faster.  I have not noticed (yet) the black transfer or other problems.  I do however know well enough to take a Canucks recommendation regarding anything hockey over my tenuous SoCal understanding of the topic .

 

P.s. I use the term Canuck with all due respect.  I understand it can sometimes be used in a derogatory manner.  Not my meaning . . . at all.

[Coop]

I thought y’all were jackin about hockey tape but there really is such a thing and I can even get it in my area!