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    Storing Ratchet Straps for Quick Deployment

    Warning: This is a REALLY trivial "homemade tool."

    Showing up to rig a load with a tangle of ratchet straps makes you no friends. For the longest time, I would wrap up each strap and secure it with 3M Painter's tape. This works fairly well. The tape gently kept each strap coiled up yet a light tug and the tape would fall away. Sometimes the tape would fall away even without that light tug. Not good. Of course, the tape goes in the trash.

    I just figured out a better way that is free and reusable.

    If you are interested, please see
    https://rick.sparber.org/RatchetStrapStorageBands.pdf

    Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.


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    Hey Marv,

    I put a pun in this article just for you. Did you see it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rgsparber View Post
    Hey Marv,

    I put a pun in this article just for you. Did you see it?

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    I saw the footnote but I must be extra dense this morning (not a new thing at my age). I'm afraid that I need an explanation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    I saw the footnote but I must be extra dense this morning (not a new thing at my age). I'm afraid that I need an explanation.
    Marv,

    OK, I know it is a real stretch (oops, another bad pun), but I wrote:

    "On what must sound like an unrelated tangent, I was putting on my socks this morning and my heel tore through."

    The force that tore my sock was tangential.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rgsparber View Post
    Marv,

    OK, I know it is a real stretch (oops, another bad pun), but I wrote:

    "On what must sound like an unrelated tangent, I was putting on my socks this morning and my heel tore through."

    The force that tore my sock was tangential.

    Rick
    That was so bad I'm going to drive over there and give you a good sock.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    That was so bad I'm going to drive over there and give you a good sock.
    Sock it to me?
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    You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

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    *Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill
    If you are going to ridicule golf, there is no better than Robin Williams.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
    You should wear those when you golf*; you already have a hole-in-one.

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    *Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill
    If you are going to ridicule golf, there is no better than Robin Williams.

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