Method to tighten 5/16 lines

[Sugar Bear]

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Sugarmaker

One photo shows the yellow hollow core slipped onto 5/16 tubing, where about an 18" section of the hollow core is on the 5/16 tubing. The other photo shows the tubing being pulled tight with the hollow core in hand. I do this over a storage tank of either 30 or 50 gallons.

It works great because so long as the hollow core has a good grip on the tubing ( you have to work it through for about 18 inches ) you can pull the tubing as tight as you want. I do that by wrapping the hollow core around a tree and then pulling tight using the tree ( any tree ) as an anchor. You can wrap around the anchor tree a few times with the hollow core and then just do 4 or 5 wrap overs with the hollow core and it will stay tight.

Got to have the write sizes. Walmart sells two sizes of the yellow. One works great for 3/16 and the other works great for 5/16.

Not every Walmart carries the yellow hollow core.

Has to be hollow core.

[littleTapper]

With my hollow core, I use a trucker's hitch to help pull it tight. If you pass the rope through the loop (step #3) twice you can pull it tight and it won't back off easily; which allows me to then pull slack out of the tubing elsewhere, working back toward the rope.

https://www.101knots.com/truckers-hitch.html

[Arctic Fox]

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Walmart sells two sizes of the yellow. One works great for 3/16 and the other works great for 5/16.

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The 1/4" hollow core works good for 3/16 tubing. Do you know the size that works well for 5/16?

[Sugar Bear]

The 1/4" hollow core works good for 3/16 tubing. Do you know the size that works well for 5/16?

3/8" hollow core is what you want for 5/16" tubing

[Sugarmaker]

Thanks guys,
This gives folks some good options to keep lines tight and down hill!
Regards,
Chris

[johnallin]

3/8" hollow core is what you want for 5/16" tubing

Push it together to shorten it up and open up the braid and 1/4" will work just fine.

[littleTapper]

Push it together to shorten it up and open up the braid and 1/4" will work just fine.

Some 1/4" rope will work on 5/16" tubing. Some won't. The rope I bought last year for my 3/16" runs definitely does not work on my 5/16" tubing. That rope is most definitely different than the 1/4" rope I used to setup my 5/16" runs a few years ago - that worked perfectly.