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Re: [Shop-talk] Electrical tape

To: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Electrical tape
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 13:42:08 -0700
Just a side comment; I pulled a roll of 3M "Super 33+" electrical tape out
of the drawer a few days ago, and discovered that the adhesive was no longer
sticking to the original side of the tape!  There were places where it would
stick to the "wrong" side, but in other places it just balled up and made a
mess.

After pulling off roughly half of the roll looking for a piece I could use,
I threw the whole thing in the trash.  It may have gotten a little warm in
the 6 years or so it's been in that drawer ... our weather does sometimes
hit 100F and the garage is not air conditioned.  But it still seems like
disappointing performance for "premium" tape that sells for over 5 times the
price of the cheap stuff.

The cheap roll in the same drawer (and even older) wasn't a lot better, but
it was usable.

If you can work out how to make it work in your situation, ordinary heat
shrink tubing works a whole lot better, especially if you expect it to last
for awhile.  I recently pulled out some wiring from my wrecked Triumph that
I did nearly 20 years ago, and the heat shrink was still pliable and sound.
For harnesses, I've been using the expanding nylon braid, with heat shrink
to seal the ends.
http://tinyurl.com/3yzdl9b

-- Randall 
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