Tape Rankings

[desh]

1. gaff (AKA "gaffers")
   
2. duct
   
3. aluminum
   
4. scotch
   
5. packing, clear
   
6. glow
   
7. satin (like scotch, but disappears on gift wrap)
   
8. masking
   
9. spike
   
10. medical
    
11. friction
    
12. double-sided foam
    
13. electrical
    
14. packing, brown (the plastic kind)
    
15. dance floor
    
16. packing, brown (the paper kind, kinda like masking)

Comments

[captainjew.livejournal.com]

You are so damned odd

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

this from someone who has the blueman group as a personal picture

[captainjew.livejournal.com]

Shut up, you!

[desh]

I vaguely considered doing numerical ratings, and a paragraph, on each of them. What would you have said about me then?

Preferred

[bumonyou.livejournal.com]

actually, I would really have liked that, as I didnt recognize a good number of those tapes and would like to learn more. Maybe you should teach a course at the community college and fall in love with one your students who will, of course, understand the glory of adhesives

GLORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Preferred

[desh]

One worth mentioning is friction tape. It is a fabric tape. The one time I saw it, it was black and about 3/4" wide. It is slightly adhesive, but tends to stick to only itself (under its own power). Sort of the anti-Teflon. It's great for bundling things together, or as a substitute for electrical tape.

Re: Preferred

[bumonyou.livejournal.com]

cool! I've always had the problem that the adhesive on electrical tape dosent really do such an enduring job of sticking to the tape, and so tends to get all over things and covered with dirt. Blech. So when are you going to publish this online compendium, or Tape-ionary, as it may be called?

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Does anyone else have and urge to go buy gaff tape and try to compare it to duct tape?? time to tape Everything

Hey it could be a class project...

[captainjew.livejournal.com]

I would have stood baffled

[myq.livejournal.com]

medical's underrated.

[desh]

That's because you live with a health care professional, and therefore probably have a lot laying around the house. Trust me, if it were gaff tape there instead, you'd never touch the medical stuff unless you were making a band-aid.

[jox.livejournal.com]

seek help

[desh]

I love you too.

[ruthonfire.livejournal.com]

I'm a tape junkie too; we must be related

(though I would never type the words 'sweet sweet gaff')

[nightsuplate.livejournal.com]

how can you say that there is a tape better than duct tape? you need your head examined!

!S

[desh]

Sara (and Pato too), you have clearly never used gaff tape. Aside from the tremendous price difference, duct tape is very much second fiddle. I know some people consider this sacrilege, but those people have obviously never used sweet, sweet gaff.

[nightsuplate.livejournal.com]

i have used gaff tape, actually. yet i'm still thoroughly impressed by duct tape.

i can't believe i'm arguing about tape.

!S

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

what is spike tape

[desh]

Fabric tape, about a centimeter wide. Identical to gaff tape, except for the color and the width, and is therefore really sticky but removable and mostly without residue. Spike tape is typically made in bright, fluorescent-style colors, and is primarily used to mark areas on a theater's stage to aid the stage crew in placing set pieces or to aid actors in placing themselves.

[ladypeaches.livejournal.com]

I remember using colored electrical tape for stage marking

[pato.livejournal.com]

duct got jobbed.

[pprbagprinces.livejournal.com]

paper brown tape is o much better than the plastic kind. are you crazy??????

[desh]

Well, the rankings may not be perfect all the way down there. The point is, they both really suck.

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

medical tape whould be higher on my list.

[tobeginagain.livejournal.com]

You're a dork. A huge huge ridiculous lovable dork.

In other news, this list is awesome. And I google[image]d some of the tapes i wasn't familiar with. So, thanks for teaching me something!