I stopped using tapes a long time ago - for the simple reason that they're impossible to fair into the rest of the wing nicely, and they don't do much anyway. A lot of wings break just outside the tape, because you've created a stress riser, or worse, you've sanded through the sheeting just outside of the tape to try and fair it in!
Better to cut a curved odd shaped diamond of 2oz cloth, and align the points to the centreline of the wing, and the main spar (you can now see why it'll be 'odd shaped, the trailing edge point will be further away that the leading edge point). i usually just fold a peice of cloth, mark the leading and trailing edges, and draw nice curved lines with my circular cutter out to the main spar point (usually about 3" from centreline), so I end up with a playing card style diamond (concave curve) as oppsoed to a baseball (staight edged) one.
This is far stronger, and easier to fair and conceal under covering that a 1" tape.
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