Plasti Dip

Because enough just hasn’t been said about it.
Plasti Dip for me has been great at making the end of a gravel tube comfortable and allows you to keep a great seal.
You can find it at Home Depot and Lowes for about $6-7 + tax. They normally keep it around the paint and adhesives section. It’s used for adding a rubber coat to tools that normally come with just metal handles. It comes in two forms, the Dip and the Spray, I prefer the Dip. When dipping your tube, if you seal off the top hole (say with your thumb) it will hold a bubble of air inside the tube so the plasti dip will not coat the inside. I applied about 4 coats and that has worked great.

I wanted to make this post so it was easier to find and so people wouldn’t sound/look like a D.A. when trying to find it. If I have left something out please add.

Time,

Thanks for sharing your tip, especially for the guys who make their own pump tubes.

Peforeal

I just wanted to add some more information about it.

I know I spent a few hours one day looking for the stuff, and the people at Home Depot didn’t even know where it was at! :whatever:

I’m assuming since you lay or dip the stuff onto the tube that you could also remove it with a razor knife or such?

I’m thinking this could be the tad bit of space taking material I need to keep my nutz from getting sucked up in the tube under pressure.

Any thoughts on any of that?

It mainly gives a rounded, softer end to the store bought gravel cleaner tubes.

You could keep adding coats, I don’t know if that would solve your problem, but if you are worried about buying a new tube the ones at Petsmart are only about $8.

I used some SILICON GASKET goop for my first one, and I am going to do the DIP for the next.

The silicon was easily worked, and makes a great seal, but it is hard to shape, and leaves a very strange looking indentation around my root where it is compressed during pumping.

I did trim the inside of it with a razor blade, but is is still not smooth and even. I think I’ll get better results the next go.

I may try to dip this one, if I can get the gasket stuff off without messing up the tube.

PUMP ON, BRO!!!

SHALOM
wan2Bbig/Alex