Hi John, How about those fat rubber bands they put around lobster claws when
they're in the tank at the market??

<Art wrote>
>    As for the seam height being greater than the tube.... um... sand it
>down?  we used to do this when we patched tubes by "Vulcaniszation" ...

Hey Art... did that guy at the Phillips 66 have pointy ears and did his
eyebrows turn up at the end?? (hehehehe)

Steve (Art has been 'beamed-up' to the HP3K world) Weisbrod