Success. I found some valve rubber in an old puncture repair kit. It works perfectly. Being rubber it has more stretch in it than the more modern and plastic/silicone type.
Just ordered a couple of feet of the stuff. Should see me out, based on how much river fishing I do these days
Float rubbers
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Old car owners never die....they just rust away
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Cycle valve tube arrived. Sliced up and has made loads of float rubbers. Ideal for my cane stemmed floats.
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Excellent, result
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I found that if one bought the old vintage rubber valve tubing, it had more of a rubbery consistency, unlike the imported modern type which was is more like a tight silicon tubing, usually has a lighter colour slightly pink appearance .....
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Yes, it is definitely more rubber like in texture. The stuff I have is a sort of light buff colour.
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I always use silicon tubing and cut to suit.
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
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Yes that's the one, cracking stuff.....MGs wrote:Yes, it is definitely more rubber like in texture. The stuff I have is a sort of light buff colour.