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Canal Rubber: DIY Heaven

329 Canal Street
New York, NY 10013
212.226.7339
www.canalrubber.com

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Rubber is not the only thing you will find in this old fashioned but amazing resource. If you need foam for cushions, a mat for yoga, heavy duty floor matting used in doorways or kitchens, rubber hose, or anti vibration pads underneath your stereo, this is the place.

We use Canal Rubber every time we make a headboard (instructions here) and always find new uses for the many materials they supply. Don't be put off as the proprietors can be a little grumpy, they always seem to smile in the end. MGR

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Canal Rubber

Location:
329 Canal Street
New York , NY 10013
Phone:
212.226.7339
Website: www.canalrubber.com
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Soho, plastic, rubber & high-tech

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I once bought bunch of foam for there to create fake hanging dead pigs and cows for the set of a little independent film, where it needed to look like a butcher shop.

By the way, if you ever have to sculpt that kind of foam that people use to supplement their mattresses, what really works well is the kind of electric knife that people sometimes use to carve actual turkeys.

posted by Curtis on 2005-08-26 12:58:58

I sincerely hope that Canal Rubber will stay in the neighborhood. Great Industrial stores like these need some type of protection from developers and what-not. I sorely miss Industrial Plastic, Canal Surplus... don't know if Space Metal is still there.....

posted by evamn on 2005-08-26 13:38:52

Say bye bye. Canal rubber is sadly no longer with us. Oh, woe is me.

posted by Alexuma on August 7th 2008 at 8:33pm
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Actually, they're still very much open and still very much awesome! Ask for Matt if you swing in - he's really nice and he knows his rubber ( and foam, and latex, and sheeting, and tubing, and basic home solutions, and crazy art projects ... ).

posted by Virago on March 20th 2009 at 11:12am
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