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Post by bluefish on Mar 24, 2019 3:42:31 GMT -8
Tent, pack, and rain gear repairs all holding great with Tenacious Tape. Flex Tape is far thicker, heavier, and stickier, but repaired a split in the bow of my ABS canoe. Downsides are TT is expensive, you need a sharp blade or scissors to cut it, hard to carry large amounts and make repairs requiring long length. . Wouldn't work to make a splint like you can with a few feet of Duck Tape. I carry some strong, light cord for that. Gorilla Tape is far stronger than standard Duck Tape. I use a lot of the Gorilla products in the trades, the tape included. For a shoe wrap repair, I'd think it far more durable. Maybe overkill for holding something light together. The Gorilla tape is much stiffer, would work better than D tape on a tent or trekking pole repair. I've never used gaffer tape, may never have even seen it, unless called by another name.
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Post by rebeccad on Mar 25, 2019 12:22:02 GMT -8
I found the Tenacious Tape, not at Torpedo 7 but at the Kathmandu store across the street. Not cheap, but if it makes a more or less permanent fix it will be totally worth it. I’m going to tackle that fix as soon as I stop messing around with the Internet
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Post by gabby on Mar 25, 2019 13:28:23 GMT -8
I’m going to tackle that fix as soon as I stop messing around with the Internet :) Yeah, right! ;^D I'm finding that using stoves, recording them, editing them, then uploading videos is one of the more time-and-labor-intensive things I've ever tried, outside of trying to write coherent sentences. The internet is a trap. ("It's a trap!" - Admiral Ackbar)
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Post by BorderCollieMike on Mar 25, 2019 15:15:57 GMT -8
I've used Tenacious Tape to repair relatively thin & fragile material like mosquito netting tears, Ghost Whisperer jackets and polycro tears with excellent results. It is amazing stuff and seems to last for years. I also carry Gorilla Tape wrapped around my trekking poles for more substantial repairs like separated shoe soles and patching water bladders (works great). I still have most of a roll of gaffer's tape somewhere out in the shop, left over from my skydiving days. In the 90's I was an active jumper and one day the regular jump photographer didn't show up. I got tapped to "fly camera" on a load and really enjoyed it. Those were pre-digital camera days, and aerial photographers wore converted motorcycle helmets with Rube Goldberg frames bolted on top. The front of the helmet up at the forehead had an 'L' bracket with stout bungees that strapped down a motorized 35mm still camera with a cable activated shutter. The cable ran down your jump suit to a hand-held trigger. On the top of the helmet was a flat platform with 2"-wide velcro that held down a Super-8 video camera with more bungees. No controls for that, you just had to start the tape running before you climbed out of the plane. The helmets even sported thick plexiglass/cross-hair sights to line up the video ala the first Star Wars movie. Gaffer's Tape was used to secure everything to the helmet and seal the back of the 35mm still and the tape gate on the Super-8. The entire contraption looked like a bowling ball and weighed about eight pounds. When your chute deployed you had to tuck your chin strongly into your chest and hope for the best. We learned to pack our 'chutes so they opened slow and soft. If you packed a fast-opening 'chute you ended up with a sore neck. I ended up flying a lot of camera right up until the digital age began changing all the gear. That Gaffer's Tape would stand up to 120mph winds all day long and then cleanly peel right off at the end of the day. Amazing stuff.
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Post by wwhorizon on Apr 12, 2019 5:34:18 GMT -8
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