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jethro Member
Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 178
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:28 am Post subject: All Hallows Horror of Masking Tape ! |
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Putting on bass bar. Put some blue masking tape on other side (outside)
to keep from scratching top surface. Next morning went to peel off blue
tape and BAM...... the adhesive was pulling out wood fibers off the top
--- looked like a Bear claw mark on a tree in the woods. The blue stuff
isn't supposed to stick tightly ! Used it for years with no problems. (but
not on wood) I had sized the top surface about 5 days earlier with a
dilute hyde glue solution. Parhaps the sizeing was interacting with the
tape adhesive ? I put a little hyde glue on the splinters and pushed the
tape back down for half a day. Then steamed the outside of the tape to
get it off. It came off but it left a heavy , sticky stripe of it's dhesive
on the wood (removed with lacquer thinner) The errant splinters seemed
to pretty much go back in place but still had a little blemish there.
Beware of tape !
Tim |
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Jack H. Super Member
Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 346 Location: Israel
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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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never used the tape myself.
Always have some gluing pads handy.
Thisck cardboard wraped in saran wrap or equivalent name brand product.
(Cling film for the UK readers)
Use them whenever wood or varnish needs to be protected. Sometimes even thin perspecs (plexiglass for the US readers) with the edges and corners rounded to prevent damage to the varnish from an edge digging in.
hard to say if the glue had anything to do with that... if it was it would have pulled the blue off the tape and not the tape pulling the wood, maybe not though.
Beware the tape.
J |
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