What is Tip Tape?

Hi,

What is tip tape generically called, i.e. I suppose tip tape is just one of
the many types to tape found in hardware stores and would like to know what
is it more commonly called. I'm hoping I can buy a roll at the hardware
store and save a few bucks.

Thanks.

Dig Dug writes:
> What is tip tape generically called, i.e. I suppose tip tape is just one
> of the many types to tape found in hardware stores and would like to know
> what is it more commonly called.

I used heat-shrink tubing.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

In article <87u0ry9ym1.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
writes:

>I used heat-shrink tubing.

So did I but I don't anymore. It really doesn't hold up well. With wear it can
loosen and slip.

I was fortunate to be able to visit Science and surplus (?) in West Chicago
where I picked up a 3/4 inch roll of tape for 89 cents which I have been using
for five years.

Bill Hall

"Duct Tape" is another common name,
or possibly "Gaffer tape",
or generically "Cloth Tape".

I guess it depends what country you are in.

Regards
AJ

Dig Dug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is tip tape generically called, i.e. I suppose tip tape is just one of
> the many types to tape found in hardware stores and would like to know what
> is it more commonly called. I'm hoping I can buy a roll at the hardware
> store and save a few bucks.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

Well, they call it "Isolierband" or "Textilband" here :-)

"Andrew John" <aj@DELETEmistrose.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:419354fd$1@duster.adelaide.on.net...
> "Duct Tape" is another common name, or possibly "Gaffer tape", or
> generically "Cloth Tape".
>
> I guess it depends what country you are in.
>
> Regards
> AJ
>
> Dig Dug wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is tip tape generically called, i.e. I suppose tip tape is just one
>> of
>> the many types to tape found in hardware stores and would like to know
>> what
>> is it more commonly called. I'm hoping I can buy a roll at the hardware
>> store and save a few bucks.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>

Hallöchen!

"Dig Dug" <inane@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> What is tip tape generically called,

Does http://tinyurl.com/6hsu9 show what you mean (it is an Allstar
page calling it "insulating tape").

Tschö,
Torsten.

--
Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus

In article <20041109233618.21903.00000100@mb-m06.aol.com> fencerbill@aol.com (Fencerbill) wrote:
>
>In article <87u0ry9ym1.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
>writes:
>
>>I used heat-shrink tubing.
>
>So did I but I don't anymore. It really doesn't hold up well. With wear it can
>loosen and slip.

Why anymore?

>I was fortunate to be able to visit Science and surplus (?) in West Chicago
>where I picked up a 3/4 inch roll of tape for 89 cents which I have been using
>for five years.

I do not lie about you, you lie about me that I am a, not the most
prolific filer of lawsuits without reporting that others filed so many
more requests, and many of the agencies did not have any backlog in
processing foia requests, and B, that they either doctored a photo of
me or used the worst shot of a hundred to give me a look that would
fit in the hostile article about me, to defame me, abuse my image and
to ridicule me.

>Bill Hall

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

--
Lady Chatterly

"and yet, idiot.. you replied to her. *snicker* What a maroon." --
19:09:05:13

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:55:33 GMT, an orbital mind-control laser
caused "Dig Dug" <inane@worldnet.att.net> to write:

>Hi,
>
>What is tip tape generically called, i.e. I suppose tip tape is just one of
>the many types to tape found in hardware stores and would like to know what
>is it more commonly called. I'm hoping I can buy a roll at the hardware
>store and save a few bucks.
>
>Thanks.

There are a couple of possibilities. When I was fencing in college we
used white medical tape--the kind you use to tape gauze pads on
scraped knees. Nowadays I usually use duct tape, but it has the
annoying habit of wearing out after a few months and neding to be
replaced. I know some folks who use gaffer tape, which is similar to
duct tape but stronger, but is harder to find--try a theatrical supply
outlet.

-Chris Zakes
Texas

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes