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Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/17/2009, 1:06 am
In Response To: Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope (Greg H)

: I use 1/4" glow-in-the-dark for the ridgeline on my camping
: hammock, and for clotheslines in camp. It's great stuff, has
: saved several of us from ...um..... clotheslining ourselves in
: the dark!
: I picked mine up at a local hardware store, I think I paid between
: $5 & $6 for 100'.

: -Greg

I think most of the stuff you find is coated to absorb light after it's woven into rope, tends to wear off after use. They company making the stuff I mentioned makes a big deal about it being added to the fibers prior to it being made into rope.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Announce: glow in the dark rope
Bill Hamm -- 11/12/2009, 4:08 pm
Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
Greg H -- 11/16/2009, 11:32 am
Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
Bill Hamm -- 11/17/2009, 1:06 am
Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
Malcolm Schweizer -- 11/12/2009, 4:36 pm
Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
Reg_B -- 11/12/2009, 8:48 pm
Re: Announce: glow in the dark rope
tony olsen -- 11/13/2009, 9:07 am