SSW001 rubberboutique.indd 29 20/07/2018 16:27 S S 1 6 : 2 7 SS 16:27 BAND SET MAKERS 029 Now of course, both HtH and Sheepy can and do make tube bandsets from time to time and are asked for them. But if you want the single most dyed-in-the-wool tube set expert on your case, you need Neil “Hawk” Bingham. Despite the trend going to flat bands recently, with the original Theraband Gold from the Hygenic Corporation being usurped by new kinds of flat sheet materials, Hawks still love their tubes. Neil makes from sniper-accurate-super-delicate to absurd hench harpoon. Hawks sell Theraband pull tubes, as well as a wide selection from the slingshot superstars Dankung in China. They supply lots of different tube sizes, both extruded and dipped - the latter ones described as ‘premium’, which are about consistency for expert shooters and cost more to make. Tubes are sold by numbers, which are the diameter of the outside and the diameter of the hole up the middle, in mm. Thus a tube can be one overall thickness yet a different one may have beefier walls and so be a stronger pull for the same overall diameter. It can get quite complicated, let alone the bonkers varieties in which tubes can be applied to frames. Singles, then ‘pseudo tapered’, then doubled and even concentrically-threaded tubes that need special tools and lube to make, called a ‘cocktail’. The permutations and combinations are limitless. But Hawks sell the widest variety of kinds and strength levels of bandsets in the UK. His Ebay Shop hawkscatapults02 is here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/hawkscatapults02 Hawks also sell elastic by the metre and have affordable frames for sale, too. All these Hawks sets were carefully labelled… 1. Dankung 1745 black looped 2. Dankung 1745 amber premium dipped looped 3. Dankung 2040 black looped 4. Dankung 2040 amber premium dipped looped 5. Dankung 2050 black looped 6. Dankung 2052 amber looped 7. Dankung 1842 black looped 8. Theraband Tube Red 9. Theraband Tube Blue 10. Theraband Tube Black 11. 4070 single black 12. 5080 single black 13. 1mm GZK-Band flat 20 to 15mm taper 14. Theraband Gold 25 to 20mm doubles 15. ‘Precise’ Orange 25 to 20mm taper Hawks TheKingsofTheTube SSW001 rubberboutique.indd 29 20/07/2018 16:27