Flange papers

[Roger Jolly]

At 07:25 PM 12/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>For many years John Ford sold auto body stripeding tape to use for
>traveling.
>
>Unfortunately this material had gum that oozed out from the flange screw
>parssure and changed the traveling.
>
>For many years I have tried many different types of tape and have
>finally come back to the old tried and true brown pachaging, lick and
>stick, tape use for the last fifty or more years.  
>
>It's advangate is that it does stick to most surfaces, is cheap in the
>extreme, comes is large rolls and works perfectly for our purporses.
>
>What I do is take a 1/2" dowl and stick the tape to the dowel then roll
>one inch or more diameter of tape onto the dowl.  I take a piece of 2x4
>and drill a 1" diameter hole down it's middle.  I split the 2x4 and fit
>the dowl into the now opened hole and cut the tape after getting a firm
>fit into the hole.  I seal the full width of the tape with a piece of
>plastic tape with the end folded under.  I then glue the 2x4 back
>togather with the tape inside the hole.  When it is dry I take it to the
>band saw and cut slices from the 2x4 the width I wish for my traveling
>tape.  My two inch wide brown tape will yield more than a yearj's worth
>of taveling tape.
>
>I don't trust modern adhesives on paper to be pressure indifferent over
>the long haul.  
>
>Have happy holidays, one and all.
>
>	Newton
>	nhunt@jagat.com
>
>Hi Newton.
            I use the colored sticky message paper, it works great,
especially on S & S flanges, it's nice and easy to remove if the piece is
too long or mis- positioned.
Regards roger
>
Roger Jolly
University of Saskatchewan
Dept. of Music.