What Glue is Used on Black Tape?

Well, the MSDS that I find show it as a 'trade secret.' Try contacting, say, the public relations department at 3M. If you can convince them you're on the up & up, and you sign the non-disclosure agreement, they may let you in on the secret...

Which brand? Cheap chinese stuff has cheap chinese glue. Good American stuff has better glue. But all is basically rubber cement.

Now why do you want to know? Perhaps there are better ways to do it...

A secret? :

Or just give some money to this Taiwanese guy and he'll share the formulae with you, based on his past (criminal) record:-

"Ten Hong (Victor) Lee", erstwhile senior research engineer at Avery Dennison (Concord OH).

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

rubber cement?

I'd like to find out what that transparent goo is that they use to glue stuff like cards or manuals or stuff inside packaging. It's hard to describe - it's very rubbery - I think of "hot glue" that turns into a form of rubber much like RTV, but stays sticky.

On electrical tape, I have no clue, but I'd think it's probably not plain ol' rubber cement, because that would dry out.

Speaking of tape, what did they use on that old-time stuff they called "friction tape?" I wouldn't be surprised if that stuff was tar. ;-)

Thanks! Rich

Shirley, you jest. ;-D

Cheers! Rich

Yeah, me too. Looks like hot melt but its stretchy. Grab and end and it stretches and pulls off. It seems to grip well but pull off without leaving a residue.

Friction tape and standard electrical tape used the same adhesive.

Go to the grocery store stationary isle the tape you want is the 3M "VHB" tape. $2 or $3 a roll.

It isn't tape. It is pure adhesive.

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You mean Artificial Snot? It's called "tipping glue" in the printing and packaging trade.

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I know what you're talking about but don't know the name. I do however recall reading the name in the US Postal Regulations Manual. It's a beast to navigate, but I'm sure it's in there. Available for free download.

If you check the 3M website's electrical tape info, there are three adhesive systems loosely described:

Rubber Acrylic Silicone

It's important for designers to know this when trying to establish material compatability in an insulation system - though a listed system inevitably requires demonstrated performance.

Rubber is used in lower temperature applications.

All are a mucilage of solvent, binder and filler, applied in various degrees of cure or activation, to prepared surfaces of the insulating media. Some forms only achieve their final final specified characteristics after being processed by the end-user.

For other applications, there are other adhesives, including some that also are formed on-site or in their end-use.

RL