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Title: Tape that can be left ona few days?
Post by: Dennis Toth on August 24, 2023, 01:48:44 PM
Guys,
Anyone find a tape for masking that can be left on for several days without damaging paint?

Best,   DennisT
Title: Re: Tape that can be left ona few days?
Post by: Ken Culbertson on August 24, 2023, 05:43:58 PM
Quote from: Dennis Toth on August 24, 2023, 01:48:44 PM
Guys,
Anyone find a tape for masking that can be left on for several days without damaging paint?

Best,   DennisT

If you find it they will come.....

Haven't found one yet.  I put painter's paper on all but the last 1/8" of the tape and hope it doesn't lift up before I get it painted.  With anything over 1/8" I get pulls.  Painting is not my strong suit.

Ken
Title: Re: Tape that can be left ona few days?
Post by: Will Hinton on August 25, 2023, 02:39:05 PM
I gently, GENTLY, heat the tape with my heat gun as I prepare to pull it off.  Usually helps. ~^
Title: Re: Tape that can be left ona few days?
Post by: doug coursey on August 28, 2023, 07:56:43 AM
WINDY PRESSESIT AGAINST TO TAKE SOME OF THE STICKYNESS OF SO IT WONT PULL UP THE PAINT
Title: Re: Tape that can be left ona few days?
Post by: Steve Dwyer on August 30, 2023, 08:41:33 PM
Slightly heat the tape surface until it comes off easily no matter how long the paint has been applied. Pull on it parallel to the surface slowly and never 90 degrees straight up. If you find a tape with such poor adherence that easily releases I'd question how sharp the paint lines would be without bleed.