25 Jan
2022
25 Jan
'22
12:24 p.m.
On 1/25/22 06:18, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
The term of art is "cling vinyl" or "static cling vinyl". Most art
stores carry the stuff--mine is a package of this:
https://www.grafixplastics.com/materials-plastic-film-plastic-sheets/commod…
Cut the strips with a paper cutter and you'll have enough in a package
to last you well into your sunset days.
--Chuck
On Jan 24, 2022, at 10:27 PM, Gary Oliver via
cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
There's a children's toy I remember: shapes cut from vinyl, intended to be stuck
to windows to make pictures. That seems to be the same stuff.
...
As to the real reason I was doing this: Most of my tapes are un-boxed and have suffered
being in a dusty area (before I got them) with the dust forming a sort of 'crust'
on the outside of the tape. It's only on the first wrap or so, but it's enough
that it keeps those handy vinyl cohesive tapes from sticking. For that reason, I was
trying to find something to clean of this dusty gunk so the vinyl strip would hold the
tape into a spooled condition. It was the side-effect of this effort that lead me to the
discovery if this "removable layer" on the DECtape.
BTW, does anyone know of a source for these vinyl strips. My old ones are 10 mil blue
very-flexible vinyl without any adhesive. They rely only on the cohesive properties of
vinyl-to-a-non-porous surface. I tried using some of the 'dry vinyl' sheets from
Cricut (the plastic decal printer company.) They have a couple of colors without adhesive
that they call "window cling" but they aree only 4 mills thick and a bit flimsy,
though so-far they are holding ok.