Actually, it would be helpful when googling to know what this sort of thing is used for in the _modern_ world. Presumably any NOS on ebay that was made to be bot/eot markers for 9track or similar is going to have aged adhesive now. The "real thing" is, what, quarter inch wide by 1.5-2 inches long? Slightly less than quarter inch? Seems like you might be able to cut something like this into appropriately sized strips: https://www.uline.com/BL_6448/Metalized-Mylar-Tape De

I have a very old roll of this that I used to put on to 9 track mag tape in the DEC world: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SCOTCH-65-7-32-X-100-NOS-ALUMINUM-FOIL-SPLICING-SE… It is not the adhesive that fails, it is the metallised tape itself - I just tried peeling some off and it just fell apart :-) cheers, Nigel On 14/10/2019 15:46, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. Nigel Johnson <nw.johnson at ieee.org> Please consider the environment when deciding if you really need to print this message

On 2019-Oct-14, at 12:46 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: For the sake of a couple of passes through the transport how, about some really thin Al foil - like that which some chocolate, or cigarettes, are wrapped in - stuck on with common transparent office tape. The tape would cover the Al edges so those edges wouldn't directly transit across anything in the transport path, but it's on the opposite side from heads anyways.

cool, that was the stuff I remembered seeing On 10/14/19 2:57 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: