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alpinejason wrote:

I appreciate where you're coming from I strongly disagree with this advice. A roll of temflex tape is $5 (22ft roll). I guess there are people and places that would call that expensive but I think the usefulness of the the tape out weighs the tubes anyway. How can you stretch the tube over the upper pommel on a modern tool? Or the tools I shared a photo of in my previous post? 

I am not familiar with temflex tape but $5 is cheap.  I am comparing with the $15 Petzl tape that only covers one tool.  Bike tubing works just as well and is more durable than the Petzl tape.

alpinejason wrote:
One of them cleaned up. This is probably 3hr of effort. At least 1hr monkeying around with different solvents to no avail. If chemists has any suggestions, I'm all ears. I tried soaked in acetone and didn't do anything. Heat gun and scraping, while time consuming has been the most effective but would like to wipe clean the final remnants. 

Take them to a metal shop and have them put the tools in the sandblast cabinet. They'll be immaculate in 20 minutes, although you'll lose the orange anodization and they'll be down to bare silver aluminum. Bonus: You can then paint them whatever color you want.

Zac St. Jules wrote:

I'll disagree with this one a bit. Plumbers rescue tape, especially the fat stuff, slowly warps and 'melts' away. This is only really a big deal if you're frequently on very steep terrain and are putting alot of torque and shit onto the tools. Its not something that will happen on less than vertical/vertical terrain. If its the thinner rubber tape youre talking about, its quite good, but definitely requires some hockey tape underneath it to keep it from tearing. 

The thing about all plumbers tape is that it's not all equal. The Magic Wrap that we used to buy from Canadian Tire used to be quite good, but they changed their distributer a while back and their formula changed too. The current stuff they sell won't even last a few sessions if you're dry tooling on overhanging terrain.

I don't know how many different brands of tape like this there is.....but Magic Wrap is the only one that seems easily accessible for us.

I've kind of hijacked this thread to document my ice tool restoration. See up thread for the original condition when I purchased them. Anyway, I finished the cleaning phase a couple days ago. This is about 4hr of scraping and wiping with solvents. Thanks to @GunkieMike for his solvent recommendation; had I know about his earlier I probably could have cut my time in half.

I think I'm going to try plastidip with sand that was suggested earlier, at least as a base prior to some tape wrap. I'll play around with it and see what works best form my hands.

Cheers.

Looks good Jason. Nice work. I talked to the guy who sold them too you (he is a good friend), I asked him what the fuck he was thinking hahaha. He does it to all his tools.

If you want to add the trigger back on to the second position, try JB Waterweld putty. Ive used it on tools before and you can mold it exactly to how you want it. Just another unsolicited tip. 

Thank, Zac. I think I'm ok without the trigger for now. It's still a noticeable bump at the upper grip but may be different after tape and with gloves. Good tip on the putty. I've used it to repair a similar on a Nomic.

Finished product. Even managed to get OEM stickers.