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Tulsa_Fireman
11/3/2010, 04:33 PM
http://ethisphere.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/3m.jpg

Of COURSE your tape is sticky and awesome.

Duh.

Cornfed
11/3/2010, 04:45 PM
and sometimes blue.

sooner59
11/3/2010, 05:22 PM
And just like Collier, it has a fist-sized hole in it. :D

soonerchk
11/3/2010, 05:45 PM
I have some of that in purple.


You're jealous now, aren't you?

Cornfed
11/3/2010, 05:47 PM
I have some of that in purple.


You're jealous now, aren't you?

yes, yes I am.:O

TheHumanAlphabet
11/4/2010, 09:35 AM
The Green painter's tape is better than the blue stuff.

saucysoonergal
11/4/2010, 09:37 AM
The green doesn't stick at all, the frog tape, right. It sucks mightily. Good old blue is hard to beat for housepainting.

TheHumanAlphabet
11/4/2010, 09:41 AM
My wife loves the green tape (frogger), leaves a better paint edge than the blue stuff. The blue stuff can bleed thrru or underneath. I don't know about sticking or not. It is not traditional masking tape, so it shouldn't stick for long. The blue stuff if you don't take it off right away can stick to the surface and be hard to come up.

saucysoonergal
11/4/2010, 09:57 AM
The green doesn't stick and the paint get under it. Blue works better.

NormanPride
11/4/2010, 10:18 AM
NU-UH!

saucysoonergal
11/4/2010, 11:08 AM
uh huh!!! ;)

tommieharris91
11/4/2010, 12:28 PM
Know who else used 3M tape? Hugo Chavez.

Crucifax Autumn
11/4/2010, 12:34 PM
I just paint everything the same color so I don't need tape.

GDC
11/4/2010, 12:42 PM
In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a chemist at 3M in the United States, accidentally developed a "low-tack", reusable, pressure sensitive adhesive.[1] For five years, Silver promoted his invention within 3M, both informally and through seminars, but without much success. In 1974, a colleague of his, Art Fry, who had attended one of Silver's seminars, came up with the idea of using the adhesive to anchor his bookmark in his hymnbook.[2][3] Fry then developed the idea by taking advantage of 3M's officially sanctioned "permitted bootlegging" policy.[3] 3M launched the product in 1977, but it failed, as consumers had not tried it.[4] A year later, 3M issued free samples to residents of Boise, Idaho, and 90 percent of the people who tried them said that they would buy the product. By 1980, the product was being sold nationwide in the US;[4] in 1981 Post-its were launched in Canada and Europe.[5]

In 2003, the company came out with Post-it Brand Super Sticky notes, with a stronger glue that adheres better to vertical and non-smooth surfaces.[6]

Standard Post-it Brand notes have only partial adhesive coating on the back, along one edge. Similar products are used for specialized purposes with full adhesive coating; the US Post Office uses such yellow address labels to forward mail.

The yellow color was chosen by accident; a lab next-door to the Post-it team had scrap yellow paper, which the team initially used.


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StoopTroup
11/4/2010, 12:44 PM
Frog-tape blows.

Gorilla Tape>3M