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Tenchman

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Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« on: January 05, 2021, 04:16:23 pm »
 :-) Please can anyone help me I am trying to find out where to get Tow Rope and Mooring ropes from
The model Tug I will be Building is the
Brackengarth from MMMas far as i can tell she is a 1/32scale model
any help please Thanks John
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2021, 05:22:06 pm »
John, M,M,M. sell them,
       Regards Howard.
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2021, 06:51:04 pm »
I have used nylon braided cord from a hardware store.  Size it to fit your scale.


And on this side of The Pond, ropes in service on a boat are called lines- spring line, bow line, tow line...  O0
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2021, 07:17:32 pm »
Search for paracord on ebay from 2mm upwards in a selection of colours  :-))
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2021, 07:32:27 pm »
go down your local material sewing shop. They will have lots of different size cord in there .

John
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2021, 04:49:56 pm »
B&Q does a selection .

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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2021, 06:16:55 pm »
I bought an ebay job lot of 'lawn mower pull cord' - white with red flecks. Came in three thicknesses. The thickest two were used as two lines on different scale tugs and the thinnest as bow/stern/spring lines on both. The thinnest wouldn't have started a mower! Only cost a few £. Alas, I seem to have deleted the photos. :(


And Lidl have occasionally had something very similar in the Middle of Lidl aisle.
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Re: Tow Rope /Mooring Rope
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2021, 05:42:42 am »
I bought a random nylon cord from the home store.
I found that if you pull about 30cm of the inner fabric out of the end, it can
then quite easily be spliced and buried back on itself.  :-)
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