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| poliss |
Sticky tape that doesn't go stickyAfter a while electrical insulation type tape goes all yucky at the edges and doesn't stay where it's put anyway because it stretches. I've read about people using Kapton tape in their dcc installations. What I want to know is, a)Do Maplins sell it under another name? b)Is it expensive? and 3) Is there an alternative.What I want the tape for is to put it over the frame of my locos to guard against short circuits when I fit a DCC decoder. |
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| Teleman |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton
Its a new one to me 
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| poliss |
It's anti-static and resistand to heat from soldering. All my Digitrax decoders are taped to their polystyrene foam shipping thingies with it. It's transclucent orange and doesn't stretch. | ||
| upnick |
Hi Poliss/Teleman, I use it in all my installs sometime it wont stick to the chassis so in this case i do resort to Tamiya masking tape left over from my military modelling days its sticky but not too much. The Kapton tape i buy on ebay .......... going for the ones with best offfer on the listings in two sizes 5mm & 10mm lasts for ages. http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=kapton+tape A good tip is to put some tape where the wires are to run on the chassis not pressing the edges down on the top of the chassis just the sides and then thread each wire through under the tape as you do the install, i always have a small piece of piano wire just slightly bigger than decoder wires to push under the tape to create a path for the wire to run through when finished and tested smooth the tape down over the wires tight .....lay flat wiring the easy way. http://www.modelrailforum.com/for...om=gallery&req=si&img=926 used here well  tis a big loco though 
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