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Subject: Re: all weather duct tape
From: Rob Danielson <>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:23:53 -0600
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This is what I've found useful. Apparently it is waterproof. I used
it on a mic set-up and it didn't seem to leave the metal bodies
sticky after easily peeling off. Rob D.

At 1:39 PM -0800 1/19/06, Dave wrote:
>Gaffer's tape generally leaves *less* residue, but it still leaves
>something if left in place for a long time and/or under harsh conditions.
>The contractors that come in to produce the A/V for our big meetings
>at work use some even less-sticky wide cloth tape for bundling cables.
>I forgot what they called it, though.
>
>It's a shame that gaffer's tape is ten times the price of cheap duct
>tape.
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:21:56PM -0000, Greg Weddig wrote:
>>
>>  It doesn't sound like the same thing you are talking about Rob but
>>  "gaffers' tape" has some of the same properties.  I highly prefer it
>>  to duct tape because of the no residue property.  I also use 3M
>>  electrical tape for cable dressing on various mic rigs, no residue,
>>  pretty water-resistant, easy to find.
>>
>>  --greg weddig
>>  Baltimore, MD
>>  http://www.ourmedia.org/user/627
>>  http://home.earthlink.net/~gweddig
>>
>>
>>  --- In  Rob Danielson <> wrot=
e:
>>  [SNIP]
>>  > There's a new, higher grade "duct tape"- like product being sold by
>>  > Scotch that I'm using a lot these days. Its easier to handle,
>>  > thicker, sticks/conforms nicely, seems more waterproof.  It also
>>  > un-peels without leaving the sticky junk which is nicer on gear. (I
>>  > used the last of the roll and tossed it last week or I'd find the
>>  > stock number.)
>>  [SNIP]
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>>  "Microphones are not ears,
>>  Loudspeakers are not birds,
>>  A listening room is not nature."
>>  Klas Strandberg
>>  Yahoo! Groups Links
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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--
Rob Danielson
Film Department
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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