Re: [Leica] Black Tape

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Thanks- I'll be on the lookout for that brand!
Dan'l
dwpost@msn.com
- -----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hunter <nhunter1@mindspring.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Black Tape

>Dan Post wrote:
>
>>Nick, The gaffer tape I saw around stages seemed to be a matte black duct
>>tape like tape; truly the handyman's secret weapon! As I recall, it would
>>support heavy loops of cable with only one or two truns, and when is came
>>of, it didn't leave goopy remnants of adhesive- great when you were
spiking
>>a wood stage too! Is it a special-only-to pro type thing, or do you sell
to
>>anybody?
>
>Dan:
>
>Anybody with Twenty five bucks. What I was getting at, though, was that
>there are several products around being called Gaffer. There's some stuff
>I've seen that's hard to rip or rips lengthwise too easily (I find duct
>tape like this too). Real gaffer tape tears easily and straight across with
>a good hard tug (you can never find that swiss army knife when you need
>it!). Some of the off brands have black adhesive that definitely leaves
>residue-beware! The brand name to look for is Permacel, but it seems like
>the photo shop product (dist. by Bogen) is different from the Permacel I've
>seen from movie supply houses, which is often a silver-gray, and seems to
>be a heavier cloth with a rough surface.
>
>Nick Hunter
>
>