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ONe thing not mentioned and is probably the biggest cause of hard to remove tape is the pallets them selves. The palettes that came with our brand press were terrible, you could not remove the tape ever, it ate into the actual surface of the rubber. These palettes used a different rubber than Action, M&R, etc. From what I found out depending on the composition of the rubber used determines how well it handles the tape, ours was a softer rubber so the adhesive penetrated to easily, we replaced all those garbage palettes with ones from M&R and Action which are a lot harder and white/cream colored. We never had a tape issue since then. If yours are more on the orange gold yellow side and feel softer than other palettes that could be your problem.
Quote from: inkman996 on March 22, 2017, 09:50:40 AMONe thing not mentioned and is probably the biggest cause of hard to remove tape is the pallets them selves. The palettes that came with our brand press were terrible, you could not remove the tape ever, it ate into the actual surface of the rubber. These palettes used a different rubber than Action, M&R, etc. From what I found out depending on the composition of the rubber used determines how well it handles the tape, ours was a softer rubber so the adhesive penetrated to easily, we replaced all those garbage palettes with ones from M&R and Action which are a lot harder and white/cream colored. We never had a tape issue since then. If yours are more on the orange gold yellow side and feel softer than other palettes that could be your problem.ding ding ding! from our experience it is the RUBBER not the TAPE at the issue here.you can use the cheapest, shittiest tape out there, leave it on too long and overcook it and it will still come right off the RIGHT rubber.action sells it.it comes on M&R platens. Probably some other brands too, but not all.there is a direct source of the stuff if you're looking to not pay action level prices, but it's a secret club that gets that far in.what's the secret formula? i dunno, i just pay action what they ask and get on with my life.(i think - it's been a while, there is even a CORRECT side of the good stuff, but even using the wrong side is light-years beyond every other rubber)