Double Sided Tape

Jan 27, 2006 36 Replies
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Ok, I admit it, I have tried it. The thick heavy 3M stuff they sell at the office supply store sucks. However, the white foam stuff they sell for



2/99¢ at the 99¢ Store rocks. I actually used it the first time in a 99¢ store. I needed to mount a motion sensor on a steel pole just below the ceiling tile. After breaking three drill bits I bought a roll of their sticky foam tape and slapped it on there. That was five years ago, and its still there.

I also like it for temp mounting some devices in tight spaces to hold it in place until I can shoot a screw in it. I have yet to mount a panel with it though. LOL.


There's nothing wrong with using double stick tape. But I like to add a bead of clear silicone just in case.

Jim Rojas

The outdoor rated stuff i've used a place or two performs well, though i hope it's a long time before i have to try to remove it.

"Temp mounting" eh? Yea thats how it starts...just ask Fowler

From there it's a slippery slope to mounting stuff with duct tape...

WHATS WRONG WITH DUCT TAPE? LOL.

Actually I was referring to things like using the sticky tape to hold the snap base for a wireless transmitter in the gap between a window blind and the window so I can shoot a screw in it. Not temp mounting like for a week. LOL. Some of the transmitters used to come with little pieces of sticky tape.

Clean the surfaces with isopropyl alcohol first and it'll stick forever and a day.

The best I've ever seen was the stuff from Moose, I think the part number was DST-100. It came in a blue box, sheets of pre-cut soft foam stickiest. Once you stuck it to something, the only way to get it off was to scrape it off. I swear you could stick a piece of bacon to a greased pole with that stuff. I still have a box somewhere.... js

What a waste of a perfectly good piece of meat.

I'm telling ya it's a disease, but it beats using Velcro to mount a panel (-cough- Pinnacle), or the motion placed on a shelf so the client could move it to different rooms (ADT) It's like my sending signals from that infamous account # FFFF :-)

Mark Leuck wrote:

Maybe it would be better if you wrapped the bacon around the doublestick tape and then fried it.

yum yum sure sticks to your ribs

I would imagine it's pretty chewy...

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A buddy of mine gave me 10 feet of this super sticky grey rubbery double-sided stuff they use on cars. The stuff is unbelievable. I "think" its used to stick body moulding on. Man this stuff is unreal.

I think you'ld be able to chew it once and then you'ld be "drinking" your dinner for the next month or so until the glue dissolved enough for you to open your mouth again...

Hahahaha, good point! At least all your food would have the taste of bacon for a while...

I got em a long time ago, tastes like eating grass

Maybe some double-sided tape would improve the flavor? Especially if it's soaked up some bacon grease...

This type of tape would be the right way to stick Bass to Brazil! The end justifies the means.

Thomas Cooper

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