rubber bands with a lower rubber content do have one advantage: they tend to stick more to the objects they touch, which can help hold things together better. The size of the rubber bands will ...

Place a wide band rubber band [in between] the screw driver (we recommend bumping one size up from the screw head which caused the strip) and the screw, then apply hard, but slow force as you turn.

That means we want the top half of the equation—the stretch of the rubber band and the size of the thumb—to be smaller than the bottom half, which factors in the size of the rubber band.

Rubber bands come in different sizes as well. The size is the measurement of its diameter, typically in fractions of an inch. The rubber band size that’s used depends on how far it needs to ...