Last time I made cuben gear I used 3M 9485PC tape when not sewing. Is there anything better/more available on the market now? I'm having trouble finding any articles or forum entries written recently.
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What tape are we using with cuben these days.
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Check out Yama Mountain, Bearpaw Designs, and Zpacks. They all sell cuben tape. All three are pretty good at answering questions about such things.
The roll of 25mm tape I just received from ZPacks appears to be 3M 9472.
All these codes (9458 • 9471 • 9471PC • 9472 • 9671 • 9672 • 9673 • 9674) use the same adhesive, only the thickness of the adhesive and type of backing seem to change. The 9472 has 5 mil adhesive thickness which 3M recommends for slightly textured surfaces.
Thank you for the responses,
BJ, I had never heard of Yama Mountain Gear, Nice site!
Jerry, I think this is the one I will with since I can get it quicker then the others mentioned. I was debating weather to tape or Hysol the tie outs. Looks like the tape will work well. I may stick with that for the ease of it.
Mark, I was curious what Zpacks uses. I could see from the photo that it was a 3M tape but not which one.
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