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Talk about favorite or hated suppliers, recommend good materials or sources, or anything of the same ilk. This is also a good place to suggest unique ideas and innovations you may have come up with.
I've been bedding a lot of hardware lately. I've had two rolls of blue tape in the box. One stuck pretty well, the other was a total waste. It'd LOOK like it was sticking, but the minute you turned your back it'd lift and some sealant would sneak under it. Jackass that I am, I never bothered to look at the cardboard core of the rolls to tell which was which until this past saturday.
The winner of Mike's Super-Scientific Humid-Weather Uneven-Surface Short-Duration Over-Hyphenated Adhesion Test is...... drumroll.....
INTERTAPE!!! $3/roll and it kicked 3M's 7day stuff right off the boat.
I'm not saying I'd use it in a painting application that required the tape to be left in place for a week, but for short duration applications, this stuff is my new favorite.
That particular roll came from "Richlin", a local dirt-mall store that I think is a chain, but perhaps not. A number of other local stores carry it, though.
