Comes or perhaps came in rolls , about 3 inches wide, consisting of hessian web ,holding a sticky clay, gum and oil? mix, that stays sticky for ever and a day. For bridging gaps in guttering, corrugated sheeting etc, you then smooth down the surface with fingers, and only lots of rags will remove the goo off your hands. Similar to the insecticide impregnated bands for wrapping around apple trees, but without the insecticide and probably more goo per square inch.
Trade or generic name for sticky band material?
May 17, 2016
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I do not know about that - but flashband would be a functionally similar tape.
Sounds like the original duct tape. I remember it when I was a lad, before synthetic stuff started appearing. Hessian/burlap/jute, I think.
You don't mean denso tape ?
Simon.
The one I recall my father using to seal glass to steel tee section glasing bars for a lean to roof in the late sixties(!) was called Sylglas and was evilly sticky on both sides and a pig to use but very effective. It still seems to be sold under that name.
Isn't denso basically greased cloth - with a less permanent adhesion?
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Didn't they used to advertise somewhere like Practical Gardening - top right front cover, or similar?
Denso wrap ... I think they make several products under that name
+1.
When I was involved in a project a few years ago which required running a compressed air line a couple of hundred metres to a new building on an industrial complex with existing compressors, I was interested to find that the preferred method was trenched iron pipe wrapped in double denso tape. And surprisingly cheap.
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perhaps the roll end I found in the shed was greenish colour from the addition of green clay to the mix. Petrolatum? I would have thought there was something more sticky than that in the mix
Denso tape.
You'll have had other replies by now (I was so caught up with looking at the wiki articles on Ffestiniog and Dinorwig pumped storage hydro stations in North Wales as a result of the Inside Electric Mountain thread late last night, that I forgot to fire off my reply until just now
- I just needed to google the spelling of Denso).
Flashband is very effective if used with a primer - particularly for roofin work
Malcolm
Good stuff that Denso tougher then the proverbial s*it on a blanket. Seen it on external aerial connections that have been in service for thirty years or more when you open them up they look like new:)...
Agreed, but you can't stretch and mould it like you can with the tape. For example you could wrap the tape around a failed joint in 40 mm or
110 mm waste pipe (would not look neat though!) but you couldn't with flashband.
Syglass tape was one version...
Only one 's'... but add another 'l'. :-)
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That has the green colour of the stuff here. At least burglar latex gloves are around these days , for applying it
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