From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:20:16 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:   
      
   > rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> To further muddy the water when I was a kid we used friction tape for   
   >> wire splices and many other things.   
   > And you can see how tapes like that developed over time to create e.g.   
   > HPHT (hot pink hockey stick tape), or cohesive bandages (buy as 3M coban   
   > if you're human, or as 3M vetwrap if you're a cheapskate).   
      
   Yeah, I got a wad of that after the blood draw for my annual physical a   
   couple of weeks ago. Handy stuff. For a lot of things it works better than   
   the old Ace bandages that tried to unravel while you were putting the   
   clips on.   
      
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