{"id":31603,"date":"2018-06-07T11:01:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=31603"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:01:05","slug":"scotch-outdoor-mounting-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/scotch-outdoor-mounting-tape\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotch Outdoor Mounting Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 6 years ago I was struggling with gluing aluminum reinforcing corners onto some fiberglass sign panels. I mentioned this to a friend and he suggested double sided tape. I had some very inexpensive tape laying around and knew it wouldn’t handle any exposure to the weather. <\/p>\n

The first product I purchased specifically for that project this Scotch Outdoor Mounting Tape<\/a>. It is reasonably priced and I have never had a single failure. I’m looking around today and realized how much of this I have used without even thinking about it. It has replaced glue on many occasions. Never (honestly, never) a failure. <\/p>\n

My surface prep is minimal, I try to remove any oil and provide a reasonably clean surface. I’ve used it to stick together pieces of metal that I am stacking up prior to drilling or otherwise machining them. It’s holding a series of reed switches for an LED indicator on my chicken house door opener — out of the rain, but exposed to everything else. It’s held a suet feeder to the side of a bird feeder for years. And it works. <\/p>\n

It can be removed if necessary, some elbow grease and it can be forced to just roll off and leaves minimal residue. Unlike the cheaper stuff. A larger roll of this is under $11 from Amazon and it goes a long ways. Shelf life is excellent, I see no degrading in a roll that is several years old. <\/p>\n

The most graphic example are my floating eyeballs. Wandering through the dollar store 3 Halloweens ago I found these eyeballs. Looked like a good size for cat toys. I took two of them and floated them in one of the water dishes, but they didn’t want to stay looking up. A bit of this tape and a metal nut for weight (I think one is galvanized, the other stainless). I took one out to show the stuff growing on it and the nut is still well secured to the eyeball. <\/p>\n

I replaced the flapper valve on my toilet 2 years ago and it just didn’t want to close. A bit of tape and a nickel and it’s working fine. These examples are of the tape immersed in water 24\/7 for years. <\/p>\n

Love the stuff. I do wish it was available in a 2″ width at a believable price, but it isn’t. I purchased what looked to be the “equivalent” off eBay in a 2″ width and while it was initially very sticky, it soon lost that and failed.<\/p>\n

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Mounting tape withstands the elements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31605,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31603\/revisions\/31605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}