Elastic straps

ahorton · Mar 25, 2009

I have owned many headlamps over the years and they all have similar elastic straps. You know the sort, soft to the touch with a company name woven or printed on the side.

Are they polyester, nylon, cotton or something else entirely? I was looking at buying some from places like www.allwebbing.com and was suddenly confronted with how little I knew about these materials.

fishx65 · Mar 25, 2009

Not sure what they are made of but I was just thinking that a good crafts or fabric store might carry something similar that would work. I guess, in a pinch, you could use the elastic from a pair of underwear!!!!:laughing:

ahorton · Mar 25, 2009

As it turns out, I have used strong and wide elastic from craft and fabric stores, but it just isn't as nice as the stuff that Petzl or BD uses.

When I was making them just for myself I put up with the plain, black 'underwear' elastic, but I'm making a pile of torches for friends now. I want to make every part of it as professional as I can.

gillestugan · Mar 27, 2009

I have also been looking for nice elastic straps without any luck. I thought I had found one at kaidomain. Ordered one and it was very good, but when I ordered more I got straps completely different straps with lower quality.

gooseman · Mar 27, 2009

I'm not sure if this would be useful to you:

http://www.rei.com/product/779817

I was able to take off the two stretchy shockcords and their stitching, leaving just the strap by itself. The one I have is black.

Lynx_Arc · Mar 27, 2009

If you don't mind straps that may say something like nightblaster on them I have a box of headlamp parts I was given to repair a bunch of headlamps and have all sorts of straps left from the clip on headlamps and 4aa incans and such. I would ship them for whatever it costs me to do so just so I don't have to decide to throw some of them away later to make space. PM me if you are interested and I will check and see what I have.

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