Gaffer / Duct / Electrical tape

Hmmm. I use duct tape to hold the numbers on the side of my race car;

The second lot was absolute junk. The backing fabric is weaker than the adhesive and it's an absolute pig to get off. It's also not very strong (not an issue in my application), so it tears all the time while you're trying to remove it, leaving little shreds all over the place, which I have to get off with solvent.

I won't be buying any more of the unbranded. Duck tape it is.

Can't help there, sorry, except the latter says it's waterproof. The SF own brand certainly isn't (as I found when trying to patch my inflatable swimming pool this summer.)

Daughter uses 12334 (think that's SF own brand?) to hold various bits on her sailing dinghy and they seem to stay put OK, as you can see (she's on the far left ;-) :

Would you not be better off with carpet tape (double sided fibre reinforced)? That's what I've used to stick things to the side of cars before.

I use TLC Gaffa tape for most jobs - very sticky.

If you're using it to wrap around something like to insulate wires then self-amalgamating tape is the best. (but it's absolutely no use for sticking flat on a surface). AL

never forget the visceral joy of racing.

Probably not. I want to cover the edges of the (laminated) numbers & MSA rules say the numbers should have a black border, which the tape conveniently provides.

I hate to tell you, but your daughter looks like a buoy.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Brilliant - wish I'd thought of that!

(Dunno why I didn't see Steve's post.)

Thank you.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Lobster saying something like:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Steve Firth saying something like:

On a related note, does anybody else get irritated by the Hollywood habit of pronouncing the 'u' in buoy? Actully, the 'o' gets dropped and it comes out like 'buey', like Buick without the end.

boo-ey.

It's a regional thing - some parts of the US do it, others don't.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Huge saying something like:

I think it's voice and dialogue coaches responsible for it. I first heard it on some ancient episode of Star Trek when a 'space booyehih' was mentioned. 'What the f*ck is that?' I asked, thinking it referred to some region where the boojums hung out. Mind you, it's provided some entertainment since, when each actor tries to pronounce it the way they've been told to.