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Permalink Reply by Mike Thomas on June 8, 2016 at 2:39pm

if you have the rubber 1 pc donuts with a hole that looks like 1-1 1/4" hole, I wondered too about getting those over my 2 1/4" wrap. It actually was very easy to do. I heated them up in a pan a water for a while

Then you exert a little effort to roll them over the oar handle onto the shaft. Once they are onto the shaft, its pretty easy to just roll them, like a wide rubber band, they will turn inside out, outside in etc till you get to the wrap and will also roll easy right onto the wrap. I guess you could put them in place before the wrap but better off over the wrap. Plus it locks the wrap good. Once they are over the wrap in the area you want them, its pretty east to use your thumbs and work them up or down the wrap to where they will stay. Was really not a big deal at all.

One thing I wouldnt do on the wraps is use that super 2" carpet tape I used. Theres too much glue on that stuff, and in the hot sun it tended to bleed through the wrap a little and I had to clean it off with thinner. I would use some thinner 2 sided tape, or cutting that 2" super tape to 1" might be better. I will say my wraps are rock solid in place with no chance of ever coming loose :) Locate them to where you pull the oar into place to row the donuts are a few inches or more away from the oarlock too inward. That way you can let them move outward out of the way some then you are not rowing. At least thats what I did.

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Westendorf on June 8, 2016 at 5:14pm

Ample amounts of talcum powder helps when you are adjusting thier position on the raps.

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Permalink Reply by dreu patterson on June 9, 2016 at 8:06am

thanks you guys.you saved me alot of trial and error-dreu

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