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(point being, they're an industrial supply wholesaler, with no minimum purchase; almost everything on this page is available from them (one exception, prongy grabbers, noted below)
McMC p2313
Clamp your special friend to the refrigerator among the magnetic poetry. Hood of the car? Temporary, deniable. Stash them afterwards, or clip recipes in them! Insanely adjustable: big flat magnet to Ball-and-Socket joint to plastic collar to B+S joint to 4" wire to B+S joint to plastic collar to B+S joint to the clamp. (Note: this clamp opens to about 3/8" and is very tight.)
McMC p2313
Clamp your special friend to the bathroom tile or the bedroom window... Extremely adjustable: suction cup to Ball-and-Socket joint to 4" wire to to B+S joint to plastic collar to B+S joint to the clamp. (Note: this clamp only opens to about 5/16" and is very tight.)
McMC p2313
Clamp your special friend to the closet door, bedroom wall, ??
Quite adjustable: adhesive pad to Ball-and-Socket joint to plastic collar to B+S joint to the clamp. (Note: this clamp opens to about 3/8" and is very tight.) Neither temporary nor deniable, attached to the wall-- but you might stick them on something you can stash away, if it matters.
McMC p2312
Adjust the pressure-- not the minimum separation-- on these from 1-50 pounds with a phillips screwdriver. In addition, these clamps are kind of heavy and look really hardcore. The main drawback of these is that the jaws aren't quite as nonskid as one might prefer. To make up for that, each jaw can pivot 90 degrees to give you more gripping options. (They open to more than an inch.)
McMC p133
These are about an inch across. The adjustment knob is comfortably ridged.
These are totally evil. For one thing, they weigh about 3/4 oz each. The four or (pictured) five little wire tips are terribly pointy, and grab pretty tight, too. (I don't even like to have them on my finger very long. But you might be able to file the tips to suit.) They open as wide as you want (well, about 5/8"), and close as tight as they have to. The knurley shafts are great to grip.
I got these from Omaha on eBay; look for something like (4 or) 5 PRONG DIAMOND AND GEM PICKUP TOOL, auction start price $3.29. Or $3.95 at their www.closeoutsupply.com.
McMC p3129
Condom-colored transparent latex shown here is 6" wide, and 10 mils thick. Many other thicknesses-- and a 42" width-- also available; I've sold 10, 12, and 14. 10 feels like it's just on the edge where rings would and fingernails might tear it.
Specs say it stretches 780% before breaking, though I've never managed that by hand (maybe I've doubled the 14 mil stuff). It's said a thorough mummifying takes about 64 feet of 20 mil, but the 10 mil stretches further. 4 yards is a nice length to do most of the legs, or 6 yards to get a torso and arms reasonably well. Maximum available continuous length appears to be 10 yd.
This stuff is fantastic compared to rope. It doesn't have to be tugging or constricting uncomfortably (or in a way that you'd get achy later on) before it's impossible to ignore. If something cramps and you need to stretch, you more or less can-- but with effort. It's incredibly cozy and huggy. Just mind-blowing, if you like this sort of thing. And of course it's very strong and reusable (wash in water, hang to dry-- which also helps disperse that typical new-latex vanilla smell, by the way).
I'll go ahead and particularly recommend the 10 mil thickness for the 6" stuff) for general purposes. Though it's thick enough to be sturdy, it's thin enough to be stretchable-- so it's good at laying flat against curvinesses and hourglassings, and a length of it goes longer. Also, it's delightfully transparent. (Careful around fingernails and sharp objects, though, with this thin stuff.)
McMC p1222
If you like latex wrap instead of rope, you may also like using shock cord. The hooks can attach anywhere along the cord-- slip a bight through the hole and over the hook, and tighten it into the slot. Sort of a reddish multicolor; black hooks.
(IMHO the hooks aren't really that strong looking.)
McMC p1278
Made of nickel-plated malleable iron. Opening and eye, 5/8"; length 4". The opening/closing mechanism works as well under tension as not: slide the collar down and the latch is fully released.
None of my local hardware stores cares to stock these-- not even Home Despot. What's up with that?
McMC p1278
Bronze. Opening, 3/8"; eye 3/4"; length 3.5".
Snaps on easily kind of like a spring snap, but you don't have to fiddle with it to get it off-- it opens like a bolt snap with an extra-large latch. Yaaah, another brilliant snap I can't find locally.
McMC p1279
The old standby.
