Inner Tube Rubber Bands

You can also use them as tinder to start an emergency fire if in a wilderness.

Inner tube rubber bands. The cheapest way to get your hands on some ranger bands is to find an old punctured bicycle tire strip out the inner tube and cut it into segments failing that free option you can purchase inner tubes from a local sporting goods store or bike shop or buy pre cut packs of ranger bands for 10 or less from companies like wazoo survival gear or gearward. Other tube sizes will likely yield different results. Shop for rubber bands in clips fasteners. This is normal and will not affect the rubber band performance but may not look so good.

The butyl rubber that makes up inner tubes should also last a lot longer than most modern latex rubber bands. The rubber bands are connected together using 3 rubber bands looped over the ends of each other to create a long band. Older tubes may develop a skin that rubs off due to ageing of the rubber. Buy products such as universal rubber bands size 64 0 04 gauge beige 4 oz box 80 pack unv00464 at walmart and save.

The pouch can be made out of a piece of inner tube or leather. Single shot rubber gun on a vintage design using scrap 2x4 and inner tube rubber bands. For this project i used 26 x 1 5 2 0 standard wall inner tubes. Some times called ranger bands these bands can be made from waste that you may have laying around the garage if you are a biker or have kids who bike then there is a good chance you have an old bicycle inner tube laying around.