micro-webbing

Z-packs uses and sells some that's about 1/2" wide. They also sell the various buckles, ladder locks, tri-glides, etc. to fit it.

Seattle Fabrics has some that they spec as 3/8" wide. I think they even offer it in blue…

Can be found about 1/4 of the way down the screen:
http://www.seattlefabrics.com/webbing.html#3/8_Inch_Nylon_Webbing

How long does the piece (or pieces) need to be, Bob? I might be able to hack some excess 1.0 mm thick/.25" wide strapping from one of my packs. Maybe a couple of 6" pieces?

Thanks. The 3/8" may be the closest that I can get.

–B.G.–

Thanks, Gary, but I need a few feet, minimum.

Seattle Fabrics may be the only game in town unless I want to buy a 500meter spool of it.

–B.G.–

fold over and sew 1/2" grosgrain?

Delete–he already answered my question.

"fold over and sew 1/2" grosgrain?"

0.04 inch thickness is going to be hard to get that way.

–B.G.–

Go to any fabric shop. You will find tapes like you want in polyester and nylon. Used for bra straps etc. Slightly thicker is the tape lanyards that come with many usb sticks. This stuff works well in Line Loc's.

Try OWFINC or Seattle.
There's a lot of light 1/4" stuff around at the right places.
Bra straps and fittings too.

Cheers

could send Osprey an email and see if they would sell you some. pretty sure the compression straps on my Exos is 1/4"

Now that's a MYOG project!

The Rain Shed has 3/8" in colors and sells by the yard if you think that might work. They also have 1/4" flat cord in nylon and polyester.

You guys are terrible! Thanks.

Early this morning, I could barely find any. Now I have almost too many choices. The various vendors state the width, but nobody states the thickness. It's hard to make a fat strap go through skinny buckles.

–B.G.–

Bob,

The rain shed doesn't give the thickness, but it does say "Heavy weight". I have some heavy weight 3/4" webbing that I got from OWF, and it definitely can't be used in regular buckles. So be wary.

I'm guessing that the Rain Shed stuff is the more common thick webbing that is used for things like dog collars. I ordered a few small pieces sometime back from a different manufacturer, and that's what I got. The yarn used is very heavy, thus contributing to the thickness.

Out of curiosity, I measured the thickness of various ribbon and webbing I had on hand. All except the 1/2" grosgrain was purchased from The Rain Shed.

1/4" flat cord .042"

1/2" grosgrain (JoAnn's) .012"
3/4" grosgrain – black .016"
3/4" grosgrain – green .018"
1" grosgrain .017"
3/4" nylon regular weight .045"
1" nylon regular weight .043"
1.5" nylon regular weight .043"
3/4" poly webbing .048"
3/8" nylon heavy weight .048"-0.050"

As others have said, I imagine the 3/8" heavy weight nylon webbing I referred to in a post above would be too thick for Bob's project.

Bob, I have a 35.5" piece of the 1/4" flat cord I can mail you. PM me if interested.

Lance

Thanks anyway, Lance. You do some good work, no matter what anybody says.

–B.G.–

What you want may be binding tape. 3/8" is the narrowest I've seen, but the thickness is .015-.025" and holds 200lb in mil-spec plain weave variants (type III).

Make some from strips of fabric?

Dyneema climbing tape is commonly available in 8mm. I think it might be strong enough (22kN)…

http://dmmclimbing.com/products/dyneema-8mm/

However, it might be too thick… It's also pretty slippery.