On 1/25/22 12:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 1/25/22 06:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 24, 2022, at 10:27 PM, Gary Oliver via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
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As to the real reason I was doing this: Most of my tapes are un-boxed and have suffered
being in a dusty area (before I got them) with the dust forming a sort of 'crust' on the
outside of the tape. It's only on the first wrap or so, but it's enough that it keeps
those handy vinyl cohesive tapes from sticking. For that reason, I was trying to find
something to clean of this dusty gunk so the vinyl strip would hold the tape into a
spooled condition. It was the side-effect of this effort that lead me to the discovery if
this "removable layer" on the DECtape.
BTW, does anyone know of a source for these vinyl strips. My old ones are 10 mil blue
very-flexible vinyl without any adhesive. They rely only on the cohesive properties of
vinyl-to-a-non-porous surface. I tried using some of the 'dry vinyl' sheets from Cricut
(the plastic decal printer company.) They have a couple of colors without adhesive that
they call "window cling" but they aree only 4 mills thick and a bit flimsy,
though so-far they are holding ok.
There's a children's toy I remember: shapes cut from vinyl, intended to be
stuck to windows to make pictures. That seems to be the same stuff.
The term of art is "cling vinyl" or "static cling vinyl". Most art
stores carry the stuff--mine is a package of this:
https://www.grafixplastics.com/materials-plastic-film-plastic-sheets/commodity-plastic-film/vinyl-sheets-film/grafix-cling-pvc-film-2/
Cut the strips with a paper cutter and you'll have enough in a package
to last you well into your sunset days.
--Chuck
My search results were dominated (even with 'advanced search') by Amazon
and Ebay (naturally) but also by a couple of vendors (Cricut as example)
and I never found anything coming up for .10 inch or equivalent in mm.
This appears to be .10 inches without adhesive so I'm going to give this
a try.
Thanks VERY MUCH for this link.
--
-Gary
