Tube Tow
Feb/100
What kind of rope or bungee could I use for my slip n slide to slingshot innertubes down the slide?
My friends and I made a slip n slide for Memorial Day tomorrow in the back yard. We need to find something that can be obtained from a home depot or other local retail store to launch the inner tubes down the slide. Is this a realistic project? What would you use? We were thinking of using a tow rope for an Inner Tube that you would use w/ a boat.
Thanks in advance!
Sounds like a good idea - best thing you could use would be surgical tube, that hollow latex tubing that you are probably already familiar with. You could either tie it to the inner tube or use it as a 'catapult'. If you decide to tie it, people will also be thrown off the tube at the bottom which could be fun. As for the tow rope, do you mean you are thinking of just using a thick piece of rope for the 'tube'? If so I don't think that wold be a good idea; getting inner tubes isn't a problem as they can be obtained from many garages, scrapyards & bigger ones from agricultural sites. As far as I'm concerned surgical tube works so well it is the only realistic option. You may want to use a few layers of tubing and make them quite long as well. Below are pics of the tube. Good luck with it!
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