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Don Y[_3_]

On 9/20/2015 12:24 PM, wrote:
You could use anything that has the right amount of cushioning and then use
black electrical tape wrapped over the material to give the strength you are
looking for. Overlap the tape about 60 -70 percent.

I tried that with some foam rubber and 20mil "pipe wrap". It felt pretty
hokey.

I do this with my bicycle handlebars, and the tape lasts for several years
and a few thousand miles of biking between redoing.

I think you hold onto a bicycle's handlebars differently than a large
"branch lopper", pole saw, etc. The "tape" I recall (from youth) was
sort of like a spongey plastic/rubber -- typically different colors
("kids"). It seems like it would stay in place, better -- nothing
*under* it (to be the cushion).