Rubber Band Balls....

[B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9]

Okay, so i've got a random question for all of you!!

So like you know, you can make your own rubber band ball if you've got lotsa rubber bands. Well i'm an administrative assistant so i'm getting rubber bands everyday when the mail arrives, and when a lab case is finished and sent back to us. So i've just in general got rubber bands coming out of my ears. Well my boss suggested i make a rubber band ball and see how big we could get it. At a job she had long ago, they had a HUUUGE one going. Well, i've been working on the one at work for almost a year now. It's a pretty good size!

So here's my question:

I also know you can buy rubber band balls in the store at like an office supply place or something like that. Those ones that they sell pre-made - who or what makes those?? Do they have a special rubber band ball machine that makes rubber band balls? Or do they actually have people that make them to be sold? (what a sucky job to have btw!!)

So i thought of this question yesterday, and asked 3 of my coworkers today... they all think i'm nuts but that's okay ! So now i'm asking you all... do you know how they do to make them, or what are your thoughts on this?? (i know this sounds totally retarded, but i truely am curious.. google didn't help any either!! Hehe)

[Natira]

A bit nervous that you took the time to google it! LOL J/k I have no idea.

[nadia]

I dont know, you no you could probily find them on ebay too!

[Sam Kenobi]

I'm gonna go with East Indian child labor.

[starnova]

i think people do it as a hobby and get paid for it

[madlilnerd]

They make them the same way they make sugar cubes- little vietnamese children put them together with spit

[superwoman]

^*ROFLOL*
So that's how they make sugar cubes!!!
...flowergirl... you're funny.

And rubber band balls... tihihi. I've actually never even heard about that before!
I think they uses a machine to make then thou.
Hm... I wonder who makes the rubber band ball machines...

[Starbuck]

SWEAT SHOPS!!!!!!

[madlilnerd]

Thinking logically (and not about sugar cubes), they probably use a machine like the one that makes balls of wool. Of course, the robot would be bored out of it's AI chip doing this and now has the time to think about how it would like to kill us all... uh oh

[nadia]

I'm making one(rubber band ball) at the moment there realy fun to make.

[madlilnerd]

How do you make them? Do you scrunch the first one up and then twist and wrap the rest around it? Isn't it mundane to the limits of boredom?

[nadia]

[B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9]

the one i made at work, i first scrunched up one rubber band, and then kept adding another and another and another. It's kinda hard at first, but once you get like a circle shape, it gets much easier. It hurts your hands after a while from the twisting and stretching of the rubber bands.

[nadia]

/\ I tryed that but it was to hard so I gave up and used my brothers golf ball as the core

[madlilnerd]

Do they bounce once you've finished? Like one of those big superballs or more like a tennis ball?

[nadia]

My'ne bounces like a tennis ball

[B'Elanna Torres 7 of 9]

[starnova]

dont the rubber balls eventally snap off?

[nadia]

maybe, but then you could just add more i suppose

[WeAz]

i have a foot wide rubber band ball and i am still adding bands

[madlilnerd]

Surely if you've stretched them all that way, they're no use afterwards cos they're all stretched and not pingy?

[nadia]

I got a pack of rubber bands and in the pack was all different sizes so I matched the size with how big the ball was

[madlilnerd]

That makes sense. My mum bought the coolest rubber bands ever- they were neon and shaped like animals! It was kinda like those spaghetti hoops you get that are weirdly shaped.

[nadia]