Alternative to tape 0

[mrc]

 

...for me scotch removable tape seems to do the trick on mylars.

[DR.X]

I'll post this again. 1" removable post it notes.

 

 

 

 

[ygogolak]

I think it depends on how much you want to spend. There are some good alternatives in here or methods for just regular 'ol acid free on a roll.

[MrKnowthanx]

I have been changing out bags recently to mylars and started using painters blue tape. Anyone else use it? I used it thinking it would be easy to pull off and I think I may have seen it talked about on the forums before also.

[Dick Pontoon]

I've been using it for years and mention it every few months when the subject comes up again. Painter's tape or Post-It notes is the way to go. (thumbs u

[slym2none]

 

 

 

-slym

[Captain Canuck]

Scotch acid free removable tape. They are the same stickiness as the post-it notes.

[B3AST]

Scotch acid free removable tape. They are the same stickiness as the post-it notes.

 

Beat me to it. This is what I use.

[ygogolak]

 

 

 

-slym

 

You willingly use a blade to cut your paper products out of their protection? I would rather not chance it if it's not necessary, that's why I always ship with the tape tabs.

When I unpackage I use this:

 

 

[wombat]

Scotch acid free removable tape. They are the same stickiness as the post-it notes.

 

Beat me to it. This is what I use.

 

I'm going to have to get me some of that.

[theVisitor]

Quite a while back on STL Hammer used to go on and on about Avery Removable Dot labels. click

Supposedly they're low-tack on mylar and polybags. His main rant was if they were to accidentally hit a comic you could remove it without harm. They look cheap enough, 840 dots in a pack (1/2 inch dia.,$6). Maybe someone here can confirm they work?

 

 

I've found them to work just fine on polybags, but on 2 mil mylar bags they had a tendency to pop open by themselves. I went back to just using regular tape.

 

These work great

 

[kav]

I use tar to seal the bags

[michchan]

I believe I mentioned this in the big mylar post somewhere on this forum, but instead of tape I use small white velcro dots to seal my comics in mylar.

 

Here are some pics as example for anyone who might want to look into alternative for tape (using my Batman Adventures #12). The velcro dots I found was the easiest way for me to open and close mylar bags with ease without having to stress about whether or not tape will ever touch comic as I'm pulling them out.

 

 

 

 

Image of the velcro dot product:

 

 

The dots are relatively unobtrusive as one side is transparent and the other white. It's an added expense compared to using tape, but I found it worthwhile. Though just want to stress I only know how it works on mylar; regular polybags may be tricky since they are 'softer' textured then the more rigid plastic of mylar.

 

How thick are those? I'd be afraid that the book behind it would have a "dot" impression after being in a box for a while.

 

I would definitely avoid those for that reason and also because when stacking comics in a box, all the tops would in effect be thicker than the bottoms. If packed too tightly, could cause some spine stressing

 

Been using them for years and pack my short boxes pretty tight (not packed so tight where it would physically hurt to pull books out of box) and haven't had any problems with them so far. But again, this is my personal preference as I don't want tape anywhere near books.

[spooncomic]

On 10/28/2014 at 1:19 PM, B3AST said:

 

Beat me to it. This is what I use.

I buy that tape and I don't like it, why? leaves glue residues on the bag, I'm looking a tape or sticky that can be remove it without leave glue residues.