[Towertalk] tape flags

[Dino Darling]

Make sure the unstretched, cut tape is overlapping clean TAPE and not the 
cable and/or the mast/leg.

At 06:39 PM 10/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>on 10/12/02 2:09 PM, Gordon Sahnow at w7whb@tds.net wrote:
>
> > I have used electrical tape for years but over time get a
> > few "flags".  My new procedure is about 2 wraps of electrical tape over
> >
> > After many years as a professional mechanic doing electrical repair, using
> > countless rolls of electrical tape from various manufacturers and having
> > recently taken down stacked beams which had been in the air for twenty plus
> > years with no flags showing, I can say that if one does not stretch the 
> last
> > two turns or so of tape while finishing the wrap, flags will not appear.
>
> From what I've been told, if you cut the tape and then gently press the tail
>into place, you won't get the flag.  The worst thing to do is to stretch the
>tape to basically tear it off the roll.  I am VERY guilty of doing that and
>I am sure I'll have to go back some day and re-do everything!
>
>73,
>
>Jon
>NA9D
>
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