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Tip: Pins and needles and … magnets?

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Mike Oxford BPL Member
PostedApr 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm

While making a tyvek bivy, I didn't want to perforate it at all.
Others may face the same when working with cuben, to hold things in place while glue setting, etc.

I ended up using a number of pairs of very strong rare-earth magnets.

This worked really well, left no perforations, would allow me to shift the "pin point" by sliding them past where I needed to work and also helped in clamping the seams.

Downside: They're not light, and might be bulky when working with a sewing machine unless you have a large table.

Upside to the downside, if you're sewing you probably don't care about pinholes anyways.

-mox

PostedApr 11, 2012 at 8:53 pm

You could probably get away with using clothes pins. That's what I used when I made my Tyvek bivy.

Bill Segraves BPL Member
PostedApr 12, 2012 at 4:57 am

For Tyvek, I've been getting nice results using scotch tape.

Best,

Bill

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