[HN Gopher] List Of Adhesive Tapes
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List Of Adhesive Tapes
Author : optimalsolver
Score : 79 points
Date : 2022-04-15 17:41 UTC (1 days ago)
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| sound1 wrote:
| For double sided tapes:
|
| 3M VHB tape (nothing can beat these but don't use them for
| delicate electronics like USB hubs, sometimes too hard to take
| them off)
|
| 3M Scotch foam tape but only if you use 2 layers, otherwise they
| fall off (okay for delicate stuff)
|
| These saved me tearing up my wall so many times.
| dsego wrote:
| I find self-amalgamating tape to be good to finish bicycle bar
| wraps instead of electrical tape, or for chainstay protection. I
| can imagine it could also be useful where it's difficult to apply
| heat shrink tubing. It's amazing, fuses to itself, sort of like
| tyre patches.
| swader999 wrote:
| Electrical tape is great. Low cost. Small. Sticks to itself when
| cold and wet. Take it skiing all the time.
| gammarator wrote:
| If you have small kids I recommend blue painter's tape. Great for
| temporary toy reconfigurations as well as hanging drawings on the
| walls.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I went through a time when I investigated a large number of
| adhesive tapes for attaching bare prints to the wall and
| eventually discovered
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_Tack
|
| beats them all. I have about $100 of fancy tape that I'll
| probably never use left over.
| focusedone wrote:
| Somehow that reminds me of elementary school.
| IE6 wrote:
| Ours used it - although maybe not the brand named one. Our
| entire school (~100 years old) was made of a combination of
| brick and cinder blocks (that were painted on the inside) so
| no real good surfaces to mount anything using nails and
| scotch tape didn't stick too well. Blu Tack everywhere (we
| even called it that).
| myself248 wrote:
| A friend of mine decorated her entire college apartment for
| $10: One coffee-table art book from the B. Dalton outlet
| store, and one pack of Blu-Tak. Slice pages out of the
| book, stick 'em up, change as often as desired.
|
| Of course the prints were ruined, but who cared? I would
| never use it on anything important.
| _def wrote:
| Interesting, I just came to have this exact problem. I came to
| conclusion that I should use frames but now I want to try Blu
| tack.
| PaulHoule wrote:
| I inherited a stupendous number of framed pictures (dangerous
| glass!) from my parents and was frankly resentful of it until
| the day I took them all apart and stored the pictures.
|
| These days my main side project is a frameless 'decoration
| system' motivated by that experience (and others) but you do
| have to be more careful in your materials choices if you
| don't want in framed prints to fade quickly.
| riffraff wrote:
| I love blu tack, it's one of the very few products that
| literally make me happy whenever I use it.
|
| I use it to stick pictures, kids' drawings, postcards and
| random stuff to a cork board on my wall and to doors, and it
| worked flawlessly for years.
|
| The only problem: my kids steal it to play with it.
| firecall wrote:
| I regret using Blu Tack on posters!
|
| It leaves a residue, can be hard to remove, and sometimes
| impossible to remove without ripping the poster!
|
| It doesn't seem to age well either, and it's not particularly
| high in grip strength!
|
| But it has its uses!
|
| My kids ones mixes Blu Tack with Plasticine, and it makes a
| disgusting sticky goo!
| s5300 wrote:
| Butyl tape is a better option
| cjsawyer wrote:
| Seconded. Might have been my particular brand, but it left an
| oily stain in the corners of all my posters. I've sworn off
| it
| anfractuosity wrote:
| Seems to miss Z-Axis Conductive Tape, which sounds pretty cool
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Missed Helicopter-Blade-Leading-Edge Tape:
| https://bikehike.org/what-is-helicopter-tape/
| alexjplant wrote:
| Don't visit this link. It's one of those AI-driven SEO-hacking
| content aggregators that's ruining the web.
| kingcharles wrote:
| You could add it... :)
| sbierwagen wrote:
| Visited that link on mobile and got a full screen hijack ad,
| which I didn't think was possible anymore.
| exmadscientist wrote:
| A most inferior list. It's got trademarked versions of ordinary
| kinds of tape, but not my favorite tape: glass cloth tape.
|
| Glass cloth tape, such as 3M 361
| https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b40068300/ , is remarkable stuff.
| It is, ironically, a much better tape for ducts than duct tape.
| It is also the only tape approved for use in Antarctic
| intermittent duty hot water systems, which have to swing from
| -40degC to +100degC and back. Daily. ("Approved for use" meaning
| here "doesn't fail right away".) It's not an all-purpose tape
| (especially not once you see the price), but nothing else can do
| what it can.
| UltimateFloofy wrote:
| Agreed. it is lacking. Where is the stationary washi tape?
| [deleted]
| Fordec wrote:
| It's also missing Z-tape. Double sided sticky tape that only
| electrically conducts in the z-axis. Great for where you would
| traditionally solder a component to a PCB but you don't want it
| to be a permanent fixture.
| https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10167835/
| nocterro wrote:
| Fascinating! Seems like that could be an effective way for
| hobbyists to attach BGA components to a PCB without a reflow
| oven - any idea if that's been tried?
| zarzavat wrote:
| What is the canonical coordinate system of a roll of tape?
| HPsquared wrote:
| Rolled or unrolled?
| kyleShropshire wrote:
| A small wad, after getting stuck to itself and an
| unsuccessful attempt at separating it, that is now stuck
| to one of your fingers no matter how hard you attempt to
| flick it off.
| jasonhansel wrote:
| I recommend checking out 3M VHB tape. It's essentially an
| extremely strong, pressure-sensitive double-sided tape.
|
| You can use it to affix (pretty much) anything to anything,
| without the mess and general annoyance associated with superglue
| --just put the VHB tape between two surfaces and squeeze them
| together until they stick.
| alanbernstein wrote:
| I learned about this recently. I was also told that it can be
| removed very easily with isopropyl. I wanted to buy some but I
| could only find it in large quantities from industrial
| suppliers. Also on Amazon with lots of reviews warning that
| it's a counterfeit product. I wonder why 3M wouldn't want to
| sell it to consumers.
| sound1 wrote:
| Depends on geography. It is available in India (and from
| local manufacturers with same quality but different brand)
| radicality wrote:
| I've once went on an Amazon-buying tape rabbit hole, and have
| had good luck with this store on Amazon (TapeCase) - https://
| www.amazon.com/stores/page/CE5D8D53-88AA-466E-BF16-5.... You
| can buy few different kinds of tapes from 3M cut down into
| normal sizes. I bought some VHB 4910 clear mounting tape, and
| some VHB RP25 foam mounting tape. Here's a doc where you can
| read more about the different kinds, I never knew there's so
| many! You can then pick&chose whatever works best (say
| adhesion to metals or plastics, or say low resistance to
| solvents so that you can easily remove it etc) https://multim
| edia.3m.com/mws/media/1015904O/3m-industrial-a...
| daniel_reetz wrote:
| If you're in the US, Home Depot sells 1" wide VHB in small
| rolls for about $20. It's branded as Scotch Mount Extreme (or
| similar).
|
| The tape industry has an interesting structure. Companies
| like Bron and 3M create giant webs of tape and put them on
| very wide rolls. These rolls are sold wholesale to
| "converters" which are companies that slice up the rolls into
| smaller rolls and different shapes for different
| applications. Most converters will work with you to make a
| custom roll of tape - some will even package it for retail -
| but a company like 3M has no interest in selling you 20 feet
| of VHB when they can sell 20,000sf to a company that will
| package and distribute.
|
| I love tape and I'm glad to see this post here.
| retSava wrote:
| Funny, was just the other day praising duck tape and how it can
| seemingly solve close to any problem in the world. Including
| ensuring our (previous) car front bumper didn't fall off after a
| small collision.
|
| You can even say it saved the lives of three moon-traveling
| astronauts! It was used in creating an adapter for one kind of
| CO2-scrubbing filter, onto another, on the Apollo 13.
|
| Also used to repair part of a moon rover in deployment, I think
| it was a front wheel protector thing.
| jfk13 wrote:
| > Funny, was just the other day praising duck tape and how it
| can seemingly solve close to any problem in the world
|
| The universal rules of DIY: if it moves but it shouldn't, apply
| duck tape. If it doesn't move but it should, apply WD40.
| mbubb wrote:
| (I don't work for these companies...)
|
| This is a cool tape to make handles and such - it sticks to
| itself but you can peel it off easily:
|
| https://countycomm.com/products/self-vulcanizing-grip-silico...
|
| Also for a different application - this Coban medical tape is
| very useful: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/v000095067/
|
| It has a stiffness that holds its position without being tacky or
| sticky. doesnt slip like an ace bandage might. great for covering
| bandages or wrapping ankles, etc
|
| And "Kinaesthetic tape" (KT) also nice when recouping from twists
| and sprains...
| kuang_eleven wrote:
| That first tape you mention looks identical to the "bondage
| tape" from the list. Very different application, but same
| stuff!
|
| I have also heard that it's used in veterinary practices, as it
| will not stick to fur.
| mbubb wrote:
| I will never look at it quite the same...
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| It looks like CountyComm sold out. I remember the type items
| being different (actual mil-spec over-run type of stuff), and
| now it looks like they're just selling tacti-cool things now.
|
| They didn't use to have Twitter or Facebook share buttons on
| their comments (did they even have comments?), they didn't have
| a "VIP" program, carbon fiber combs, glow-in-the-dark patches
| that say "operator", etc.
|
| Good for them I guess, but oh well. I guess I'll never buy that
| Universal Cleaning Stick from them now.
| mbubb wrote:
| yeah - I have bought a fair amount from them over the years -
| good lights and decent watches and pens
| mattkrause wrote:
| The "Coban" (=cohesive bandage) tape is great, but I've only
| ever seen it used on animals, for whom it's also sold as "Vet
| Wrap". It sticks to itself, but basically nothing else, which
| is great for securing things to a hairy/furry limb.
| almog wrote:
| Probably the tape I use the most, at least when hiking for fixing
| gear as well but mostly user related problems -- Leukotape. It
| adheres to skin much better than moleskin and stays for weeks. I
| apply it as soon as I feel a hot-spot forming on my feet to
| prevent it from turning into a blister, or as a preventative
| measure for areas that I know are prone to blisters.
| mdb31 wrote:
| Tangentially related point: the names of certain kinds of sticky
| tape are, similar to vegetables, pretty much inscrutable between
| English and other languages.
|
| I've been looked at (and treated by) staff at Home Depot et al as
| a complete idiot for asking for 'repair tape' (which, of course,
| in US-English is 'duct tape', or, 'duck tape' if you really
| want).
|
| One good thing about the Internet (yeah!) is that US-English
| terms for such items are now more or less commonplace. So, at
| least, if I ask for 'duck tape' (in English, in my native
| language it would still lead to much confusion...), I get the
| repair tape I need. Progress!
| mbubb wrote:
| came here looking for this comment as its one of those minor
| peeves - duck tape is from WWII era and is a water resistant
| cotton tape - modern home depot duct tape is a plasticky,
| sticky all, purpose fastening tape (not so good for sealing
| ducts, btw).
|
| There is something called gaffer's tape which I feel like might
| be more similar to the original duck tape.
|
| Fascinating how words drift over time
|
| https://www.chicagotribune.com/redeye/redeye-is-it-duck-or-d...
| jasonhansel wrote:
| To be _really_ technical about it: there 's a reasonably
| popular brand of tape called "Duck"
| (https://www.duckbrand.com/). They refer to their main
| product, which is a kind of duct tape, as "Duck Tape." To
| clarify that the term "Duck Tape" refers only to _their_
| company 's product, they refer to it as "Duck Tape(r) Brand
| Duct Tape."
|
| So the phrase "Duck tape" is fine, if you capitalize the
| first word and use it to refer to tape made by the Duck
| brand. Likewise, "Duck Tape" is fine, if you capitalize both
| words, since it is the name of the specific product line made
| by Duck.
|
| In fact, if you call store-brand adhesive bandages "Band-
| Aids," and you call store-brand acetaminophen "Tylenol," you
| could argue that it makes sense to call store-brand duct tape
| "Duck Tape." And if you don't always capitalize "Band-Aids,"
| you could argue that it makes sense not to capitalize "Duck
| Tape" either.
|
| So I would argue that using the phrase "duck tape" to refer
| to duct tape is fine, provided you accept that it is
| effectively a genericized trademark.
| zarzavat wrote:
| Fascinatingly this folk etymology is incorrect. According
| to Wikipedia[0], the "duck" refers to cotton duck[1], a
| strong fabric that can be made waterproof, from which the
| original duck tape was made.
|
| "Duct tape" (with a T) is in fact the retronym and was
| coined when duck tape started to be used for ducting.
|
| All of this doesn't explain how Duck-brand tape managed to
| get a trademark on an existing generic term.
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape#History
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_duck
| jasonhansel wrote:
| To clarify: I'm not claiming that the phrase "duck tape"
| in its original sense was derived from the branded
| product "Duck Tape"; as you point out, the phrase "duck
| tape" came first, and was derived from cotton duck.
|
| However, if you use the phrase "duck tape" _not_ in its
| original sense, but as (effectively) a new word--as a
| genericization of "Duck Tape"--then you would (IMHO) be
| quite correct to call duct tape "duck tape."
|
| I guess this depends on whether you think that this use
| of "duck tape" is actually a new sense of the phrase, or
| just a continued misusage of the preexisting sense.
|
| I would argue for the former, since IIRC the phrase "duck
| tape" actually fell out of popular usage for a while
| before the time when the Duck brand emerged.
|
| This suggests that the phrase "duck tape" was effectively
| resurrected with a new meaning--that of a genericized
| trademark derived from the "Duck Tape" brand.
|
| Google Ngram Viewer seems to _partially_ back this up--
| note that "duck tape" declined in popularity from 1943
| to 1963, slightly reemerged around when the Duck Tape
| brand got its name in 1975, but only really took off
| between 1987 and 2007: https://books.google.com/ngrams/gr
| aph?content=duck+tape&year...
|
| I can't explain why usage increased slightly between 1963
| and 1975, though. Hmm...
| agumonkey wrote:
| I wonder if adhesive tapes were also generally used (surely some
| people tacked some goo onto a leaf to seal something at once) in
| antique times.
| system2 wrote:
| People were being mummified with tape kind of stuff. They used
| similar techniques thousands of years ago.
| somewhereoutth wrote:
| When removing cables gaffer taped to the floor, always remove the
| tape from the floor and the cable at the same time. Never remove
| the cable from the floor with the tape (which may be tempting, as
| you can just yank the cable up). Otherwise you will find yourself
| spending half an hour trying to release said cable from the
| tape's gooey embrace.
| durnygbur wrote:
| I close the packages with the wrong type of tape only to confuse
| the recipient and the folks in logistic centers.
| gorgoiler wrote:
| I am something of a tape aficionado and it's great to see all
| these suggestions.
|
| Another missing tape type is water-activated or self-adhesive
| gummed brown-paper (Kraft) tape. It's the fibre reinforced stuff
| that applies like wallpaper to Amazon packaging.
|
| Here is an example:
|
| https://venuspack.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/water-ac...
|
| It's supposed to be better for recycling. You can write on it. It
| also just looks and feels nicer than brown plastic cellophane
| packing tape.
| jona-f wrote:
| It's also missing adhesive transfer tape. Just adhesive between
| non-sticky layers. Unobtainium.
| nlh wrote:
| Indeed! It's also worth noting that the USPS (at least my local
| office) requires any package sent via Registered Mail to be
| covered in its entirety with this and only this tape (water
| activated, not gummed).
|
| Registered Mail is their most secure product - chain-of-
| custody, stored under lock-and-key at each hop along the
| transit path. So at least according to the USPS, this stuff is
| as good as gold.
|
| (A slight pain to apply what with water activation and all, but
| man does it hold!)
| afn wrote:
| OK but did anyone saw a boat in half to prove the power of these
| adhesive tapes?
| miohtama wrote:
| Live and learn
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondage_tape
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