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Andy Leviss Inner circle NYC 1179 Posts |
Yup, the high rubber content helps. I can't remember if I posted this earlier or not, but the bands I use are Alliance's Pale Crepe Gold rubber bands. These are kinda hard to track down at brick and mortar stores, since most stores only carry the lower end Alliance lines. Some of the major office chains have it on their website, but unless you order in huge quantities you'll pay more for shipping than for the bands. Your best bet is to see if a local stationery store can special order them for you.
I have a huge pile of them that I've been meaning to pack up in smaller bags to sell on the website, but have been way busy, and it's gotten put on the back burner many times over the last year or so due to other more pressing projects. --A
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MagicMan1957 Inner circle 1445 Posts |
ok i been reading bout this for like 6 months i think,,,i know you have to link your own bands,,,,but i don't think i;ve seen many REVIEWS of the actual trick,,,,,,,,does anyone have this?..use it often?....reactions?.....ease of performance?.....etc
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sludge Special user milton keynes, england 530 Posts |
The effect is very visual and very easy to perform
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Euan Inner circle 1041 Posts |
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On 2003-07-26 23:25, magicbyswh wrote: try rubber cement or epoxy resin --Euan |
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Harvey Nerzof Regular user 193 Posts |
HN Review 62 : Linked for life – Andy Leviss
AD: Andy Leviss takes this "classic" plot to a whole new level. You take two (and only two!) clearly separate rubberbands, touch them together, and they visibly link in slow-motion. Then, without any switches, sudden movements, or anything else, you immediately hand them to an audience member to keep in their permanently linked state. Unlike other similar methods, "Linked 4 Life" is clean as a whistle- not to mention deviously simple! Comes with detailed manuscript clearly illustrated by magician/artist Shaun Robison and autographed by Andy Leviss, himself! REVIEW: A few stapled A4 pages with self-delusional security features. While Bernard Sim’s “Really Linked” looked great on video but was quite inappropriate in real close-up performances, Linked 4 life is practical but visually poor: the initial display (“two clearLY separate rubberbands”) looks phoney and undermines the effect. Overall rating: weak H.
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magicbyswh Inner circle North East Tennessee 1548 Posts |
I never could get the bands to look good or stick properly so I sold this booklet.
Creator of Cereal Brainwave, Creator of the Tossed out Book
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Dave Le Fevre Inner circle UK 1666 Posts |
Ok guys, help me out here. I’ve bought Linked 4 Life, I’ve practised with knotted bands for ages, and now I’m trying to make the real thing.
I’ve followed the advice in the instructions, and the advice in this thread from Dr Jakks and Andy Leviss. I haven’t managed to find Krazy glue (is it a US-only product?), so I’m using another brand of cyanoacrylate glue. It was available in thin, medium, or thick, and I bought the thin stuff. I’m cutting a thin band at an acute angle using a scalpel. But when I try to glue the ends together, they simply won’t adhere. (They’ll adhere to my hands all right, though!) I’d cut the glue nozzle to leave a small hole, but, despite that, I may be using too much glue? I’ve given up trying to make L4L sets, since I was destroying bands in huge numbers – now I’m simply trying to cut and glue a band. I’m cutting and glueing, cutting and glueing, the same band time and time again, trying to learn how to join it. When there’s nothing left of that band, I use another. But I’m getting nowhere. About one in ten times, it sticks – hooray! But the bond isn’t strong enough to stretch the band a bit, as required for L4L. Any ideas? Please….. Dave
The Ozzy Osbourne of the 34x27
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gforster Regular user californian living in wisconsin 136 Posts |
We just had a hot streak here not too long ago. A good portion of my high quality, hihg rubber content rubber bands belted to each other and made a sort of "rubberband glop." So, sadly, I lost a few good rubberbands, but I came up with a better way of fusing them - heat. Not sure if it works with "normal" rubberbands, but with these super-stretchy ones "like you would use for "Pinnacle," it works wonders - much better than glue.
EVENTVS STVLTORVM MAGISTER
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Dave Le Fevre Inner circle UK 1666 Posts |
Thanks for that idea, gforster. I wasn’t sure how to heat the band, so I used a flame, but that scorched it.
So then I tried rubber solution, using a hair dryer to warm it and to dry it. That made a good bond ….. which however broke when slightly stretched. Apologies for the naïve question, but what method did you find best for heating the band? Dave
The Ozzy Osbourne of the 34x27
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Andy Leviss Inner circle NYC 1179 Posts |
Dave--I can't remember if I posted this earlier or not, but you might try using more glue. I found that more people tend to use way too much, so I emphasized using the littlest bit possible. It seems, though, that a few people do end up using too little, so you might try using more, and then using less and less till you find out how little works.
Also, if you e-mail me, I'll pass on your contact info to my business partner Andi, who lives in the UK. He may be able to point you to a locally available glue that will work. Worst case scenario, I'll be more than happy to make an arrangement with you to send you a container of Krazy glue if you can't find anything that works (although I'm pretty sure you should be able to find a suitable glue locally). The other solution, which I can't remember if I mentioned, is to find the vulcanizing cement sold to fuse rubber patches to bicycle tires to seal leaks. This is the ideal solution, since it's made for fusing rubber, but I didn't find out about it until after the manuscript was published. --A
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Dave Le Fevre Inner circle UK 1666 Posts |
Many thanks, Andy.
I’ll e-mail you, so you can pass my details to Andi. And if he knows of a suitable glue available in the UK, I’d be obliged. The rubber solution that I tried was from my bike puncture repair kit. And the hair-dryer method is the best method of making patches stick to a punctured butyl inner tube. Clean punctured inner tube, apply thin layer of rubber solution, dry with hair dryer (thus speeding up the repair time, avoiding any moisture condensing from the air onto the solution, and improving adhesion through warmth), apply patch and press hard. So that should work for rubber bands. But darned if I could make it work. Perhaps I should be using better bands? In the meantime, I shall continue to hunt for Krazy Glue and for Alliance's Pale Crepe Gold rubber bands. Dave
The Ozzy Osbourne of the 34x27
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Andy Leviss Inner circle NYC 1179 Posts |
If you can't find the Alliance bands, look for any other band that is pure latex. These are stretchier, more durable, softer, and bond better :o)
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