Maker Tin

Step 14 Electrical Tape + Duct Tape

Makers love tape, it's just so useful !

It took me ages to think of a way to put tape in the tin, i though of sticking it to plastic sheets, wrapping around the tin and many other useless ideas.

Admitting defeat I looked over at the roll of tape, and then an idea hit me, Stick the tape to the tape !!
For some magical reason tape doesn't stick well to tape, so I decided to harness this incredible phenomenon and use it in my tin.

By wrapping the tape around the mini pencil only a very small section of the tape looses its stickiness as the rest is stuck to other tape and retains all its stickiness !

Steps -
1 - For the electrical tape you can just wrap it around the pencil
2 - When you have enough on the pencil, cut the tape
3 - Attach a small paper tab to the end of the tape for easy use
4 - For the duct tape you may need to cut a bit off the side so it isn't so wide
5 - Wrap the tape around the pencil and attach another paper tab.

Comments

[deryan97]

hey man the mini pencil tape despencer is kwl but why dont you get a small wooden spool

[shawntherobot]

it would take up too much space

[captainwiggles]

I put some pictures of it on my profile. I hope you can view them. I tried it on a regular pencil and a flat contractors pencil. The contractors pencil roll held a lot more in a smaller diameter roll. I also put a picture of the single use super glue next to a multiple use tube. The pictures are kind of crummy.

[=SMART=]

I cant see them on your profile, but if you reply to this comment you can click the "add images" button above the text box and then click the tab that says "my libary" and under your images there will be a little add button, just click that for the images you want and then post the comment. I lok forward to seeing your pictures !!

[captainwiggles]

Thanks for the help. I am pretty new to this site.

[=SMART=]

Awesome, Thanks for the pics :D If you need any help with the site just send me a message :)

[Bando_Red]

Am I the only one that finds it impossibly hard to wrapping tape uniformly? It always ends up overlapping and becoming a mess.

[=SMART=]

Between me and you, i had to do it about five times ! SSSSSSsssssshhhh dont tell anyone ! Also if you liked the instructable please vote !

[captainwiggles]

I did this, but I wrapped the pencil in paper first, so you could slide the tape on and off the pencil so you could sharpen it or "repurpose" it.

[Mechanical Advantage]

Good idea!

[=SMART=]

awesome ! do you have any pictures ?