Interesting find for emergency repairs ...

[Richard Beels]

Yep, stuff works great.  When you stretch the tape, the polymer chains are 
broken up and when you wrap the layers tightly together, the polymer chains 
reconnect to the overlaying wrap of tape as readily as they reconnect to 
the next-door neighbor chains.

Works better and handles more pressure than that LeakEnder2000 spray can 
stuff you see on TV; which does work but under low pressure...


At 12:47 10/1/2001,  Buchholz, Steven was inspired to say:

>stuff is a roll of black rubber tape labeled from Edelbrock, and is claimed
>to be useful for emergency belt repairs as well as emergency hose repairs.
>The stuff was slightly expensive ... something like $9 for a reasonable
>sized roll of the stuff.  It is very stretchy material, and what you are
>supposed to do is to stretch the material as you apply it.  The label says
>that once applied it takes about an hour to cure, and when it does it forms
>a solid piece of rubber that can handle water, and pressure up to 100PSI.  I
>wrapped a few feet of the stuff around the area that was leaking and left it
>sitting for a while.  The stuff sealed the leak well.  I still plan to
>replace the hose, but this stuff will keep the car on the road for the
>couple days it will take for the replacement to arrive ...
>
>I left the remained of the roll in the trunk ... good stuff in my book!
>
>IUD!
>Steve Buchholz
>San Jose, CA (USA)


Cheers!