# Tubing for slingshot
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 6, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048 "2011-07-06T16:10:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/1 "2011-07-06T16:10:47Z")
I want to make a sling-shot and need surgical tubing to do so. I can order online easily enough but thought there must be some place that I can simply drive to. What kind of store sells latex surgical tubing.
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/2 "2011-07-06T16:13:00Z")
If you buy a car tire tube and cut it into strips, they will far exceed any latex you could use…or if not, just go to Walmart and buy the already made sling-shot bands and attach them to your homemade beauty.
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### Author:  [@PlanetCharlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlanetCharlie)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/3 "2011-07-06T16:45:51Z")
Its not “surgical tubing” but most hardware stores should have something close. I made many a slingshot with the rubber tubing from there as a child.
… or a medical supply store (doh)
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/4 "2011-07-06T16:48:18Z")
Surgical supply stores or local (not CVS or Walgreens) drugstores are your best bet.
But now thinking about this, a CVS-type place might be a good idea, too. Ask at the pharmacy counter though, I doubt the people working the registers would know. And if they don’t carry it, the pharmacist may be able to steer you right.
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### Author:  [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/5 "2011-07-06T16:49:07Z")
Yup, you can get it at Menards. It’s not called surgical tubing, but it’s the same stuff. It’ll be back by the rest of the hoses.
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### Author:  [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/6 "2011-07-06T18:22:14Z")
I once picked some up at a hobby shop.
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### Author:  [@The\_Conqueror\_Worm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Conqueror_Worm)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/7 "2011-07-06T18:34:47Z")
A dive shop.
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### Author:  [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/8 "2011-07-06T20:36:13Z")
Old bicycle inner tube? A bike shop might have a few free for the asking.
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### Author:  [@retterath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/retterath)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2011, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/9 "2011-07-07T03:27:52Z")
Back in my radio controlled glider days, I picked up a roll of latex tubing at the local pharmacy. Just make sure there are no splices.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubing-for-slingshot/588048/10 "2011-07-07T03:35:55Z")
They’ve got it at my local Lowes and I _think_ I’ve seen it at Home Depot. Plumbing department with all the other rolls of tubing of all sorts . . . except the tubing I’m looking for. :rolleyes:
CMC fnord!