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#164152 - 01/21/09 01:23 PM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: ironraven]
Mike_H Offline
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Registered: 04/04/07
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I didn't think about the o-ring use. Possibly also for the o-ring in a fire piston.
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#164275 - 01/21/09 10:46 PM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: ironraven]
scafool Offline
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Registered: 12/18/08
Posts: 1534
Loc: Muskoka
Iron Raven,
Do you think it would work as a substitute for teflon tape too?
I am going to try it and see if it does.
Like you said, at a hundred yards for $1.99 it is worth experimenting with.
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#164348 - 01/22/09 06:20 AM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: ironraven]
Cjoi Offline
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Registered: 07/17/06
Posts: 24
Loc: N Cal
Used it last summer, for a kid at summer camp, by attaching one end to the screw off cap of a water bottle and the other end to the neck of the bottle, like a chain on a canteen lid. Worked like a charm the whole week.

Buttons never come off after they're sewed back on with floss.

Wound around a small rock gathered into a couple of corners of a bandana, space blanket, or lightweight tarp it becomes a makeshift fastener.






Edited by Cjoi (01/22/09 06:21 AM)

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#164529 - 01/22/09 11:15 PM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: scafool]
ironraven Offline
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Registered: 09/08/05
Posts: 4642
Loc: Vermont
Given a choice, I'll use the right tool- teflon tape is my friend.

If I have no other choice than to try dental floss and hope it makes a good seal... Sure. *shrugs* I don't have anything that I would normally tape that isn't in use, so I'm not going to try. But if it is the devil or the deep blue sea, I'll try anything.
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#164607 - 01/23/09 06:32 AM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: ironraven]
scafool Offline
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Registered: 12/18/08
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Loc: Muskoka
Yeah, I guess that would be asking a bit too much of floss to expect it to work as T-tape...
Cjoi is right about the buttons never coming off though.
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#164786 - 01/24/09 01:45 AM Re: How many different uses for dental floss? [Re: scafool]
jshannon Offline
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Registered: 02/02/03
Posts: 647
Loc: North Texas
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