Replacement Padding or Tubing for Guitar Stands

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I have an ancient guitar stand that has surgical rubber tubing on the contact surfaces. The rubber has gotten hard and has lost its grippiness.

What's a good replacement? Did I read somewhere that rubber tubing isn't necessarily good for guitar finishes?
 
Zaphod B said:
I have an ancient guitar stand that has surgical rubber tubing on the contact surfaces. The rubber has gotten hard and has lost its grippiness.

What's a good replacement? Did I read somewhere that rubber tubing isn't necessarily good for guitar finishes?
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The black rubber that they sometimes put on guitar stands can oxidize into a gooey mess that gets all over your guitar, your hands, your clothes...

I got some clear flexible tubing at Home Depot that has worked really well.
 
ggunn said:
I got some clear flexible tubing at Home Depot that has worked really well.
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Like fuel line but bigger?
 
Zaphod B said:
Like fuel line but bigger?
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Automotive fuel lines are usually high temp black rubber with embedded cotton braiding, so no, nothing like that. It's just clear flexible plastic tubing. Hardware stores usually have a rack with reels of different sizes of the stuff, which they sell by the foot.
 
ggunn said:
Automotive fuel lines are usually high temp black rubber with embedded cotton braiding, so no, nothing like that. It's just clear flexible plastic tubing. Hardware stores usually have a rack with reels of different sizes of the stuff, which they sell by the foot.
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Yeah, that's what I'm referring to - I have a couple of different diameters of the stuff for draining gas out of the boat, bleeding brakes, and stuff like that. I got it at Pep Boys.

Thanks, ggunn. :)
 
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Yeah, I thought some of that tubing was supposed to damamge nitro finishes. That's why they advertise some stands and hangers as 'nitro safe'.

Anyway, you can also use that foam tubing used for plumbing insulation. Not the black neoprene (wetsuit material) stuff, it's grey and sort of semi-rigid. It's not too attractive, but it works, and AFAIK, it's safe for the finish. Of course, I don't have any expensive, nitro-finish guitars like you guys. :D
 
notCardio said:
Of course, I don't have any expensive, nitro-finish guitars like you guys. :D
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Only one of mine has a nitro finish, I think, and that's the old Martin.

D'ya think a '72 LP Special is nitro or poly? :confused:
 
I also like to put tubing on my trem arms. On my vintagey looking strat, I use the plastic knob, but on the floyd rose or disco slut, I have a 3 or 4" piece of clear tygon tubing on there.
 
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