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Polyken Tape
Atownsend:
You done effed up when you put tape on there. There isn't really a good solution for removal, wire wheel, sandblast, gasoline? Yikes. If I had a lot to do, I might just bite the bullet and buy one of those Chinese CW lasers from Acctek on Ali Express.
Best not to use tape at all.
I used to buy the roller wrap mesh protectors from Jessup when they were still in business. They closed last year, and I had one of my guys drive up to Jersey with a trailer and dumpster dive for their remaining stock. I have a ton of 8 ft sections that I can cut down if someone wants to throw us a couple bones for the stock, cutting, and shipping. Available in pink and orange, sized for MZX frame width. No M3. Can cut to any length.
ebscreen:
Interesting. We only use M3's, and I have a box of the Newman protectors upstairs but they are lacking the angled flange
and when we tried them once they were universally rejected, they flop around too much.
Smart move sending someone to dumpster them for you.
Atownsend:
Dang I’m pretty sure they had m3 plastic as well. Jay said they spent a bunch of money getting all of the tooling made to extrude to plastic, but they never sold that well for them.
I didn’t realize that the Newman protectors didn’t have the flange. Those were always to spendy and out of our budget.
Check out that CW laser though… just straight vaporize the tape, prob wouldn’t even have to pull it haha
ebscreen:
--- Quote from: Atownsend on September 13, 2023, 04:23:43 PM ---Dang I’m pretty sure they had m3 plastic as well. Jay said they spent a bunch of money getting all of the tooling made to extrude to plastic, but they never sold that well for them.
I didn’t realize that the Newman protectors didn’t have the flange. Those were always to spendy and out of our budget.
Check out that CW laser though… just straight vaporize the tape, prob wouldn’t even have to pull it haha
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I was going to mention trying to get ahold of the die for the extrusion. It's surprisingly cheap once you're setup.
Not that it looks like you'll need anymore though...
Lasers looks cool but could you imagine the smell of ablated duct tape?
Doug S:
--- Quote from: ebscreen on September 08, 2023, 03:32:22 PM ---Rise from the grave.
We switched to Gorilla Tape ~6 months ago as getting the correct Polyken product in was annoying at best.
All was well, it's durable and survives reclaim. But.....
It leaves a gnarly adhesive that makes re-stretching a nightmare. All up in the channels, can't get the locking strips out
or back in, and softening corners? Forget about it. The kids are not happy. Not happy at all.
Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for removing the adhesive, aside from the obvious?
I'm not a big fan of strong solvents in the shop when a better or different product will work.
What I'm hoping (dreaming) of ideally is something we can put in a dip tank, soak for a week, and then pressure wash off.
We have quite a few of these already, and a growing number over the next year or more.
Switching back to Polyken.
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I've started using the endurance panels from shurloc to get rid of tape. As far as removal, the ink degradient does the trick for me. I just spray it on both sides, let sit for 2 or 3 minutes, use a brush and pressure wash off.
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