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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 3:57 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

When y'all say sticky tape, is that the same thing that we would call Scotch tape, or "invisible tape"?

Ah, "sticky tape" covers all manner of things. I'd taken it to mean sellotape (tm?) or similar.
Scotch tape is something slightly different.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 5:20 pm Post subject:
Yes, sellotape. Old enough to be a bit less sticky but still quite sticky.

sean
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 17 8:57 pm Post subject:
Sellotape degrades on it's own given time so you should be fine I think. @HL I think that Scotch tape in the US is pretty much like Sellotape here in that it's the same sort of stuff just a different brand name has become generic IYSWIM.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 6:37 am Post subject:
Yes, they are both trade names. I was once confused by a special tape we used at work made by the Minnesota Mining and Mineral Company. Turned out we usually call it 3M.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 17 11:08 am Post subject:
I thought the old "Scotch = cheap" joke was transAtlantic anyway, isn't it? (that's where the name for the tape came from) My grandfather always called people watching "Scotch movies"

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 17 5:55 am Post subject:
Yes, we can get Scotch tape too, but the most popular brand, and therefore the name most often used in the UK is Sellotape.

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 17 4:05 pm Post subject:
Some of the "ehhh, worth a go" grafts have dried up already, the others still look suspiciously green. Also someone was being "helpful" and cleared away the pot of cuttings. Oh well! Plenty of source material.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 17 4:24 pm Post subject:
I got some parafilm tape today...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Thu May 31, 18 6:37 pm Post subject:
DOWNSIZER BINGO it still didn’t find me a decent source of a roll or two of parafilm grafting tape

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu May 31, 18 7:16 pm Post subject:

NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote:

Ye olde RHS book said "midsummer" so I'm not stupidly far off, especially given weather.

Thanks for the reminder: I'd got my head stuck in the idea that it was a spring thing.
Maybe that's apples?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu May 31, 18 7:45 pm Post subject:
as far as i can gather different techniques are suitable at different times of year and there is something for most of the time which does mean if you have rootstocks readily available ( ha ha ha ha ) a few bits of a donor can be collected at any time now about a uk source of genuine parafilm grafting tape.....

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Thu May 31, 18 8:16 pm Post subject:
My experiments failed delightfully

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 18 6:50 am Post subject:
NMG, is a 'delightful' failure a better failure than a 'complete' one?

gregotyn

Joined: 24 Jun 2010
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Location: Llanfyllin area

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 18 2:30 pm Post subject:
If at first you don't etc.-give it another try!

buzzy

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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 18 5:48 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Sellotape degrades on it's own given time so you should be fine I think.
@HL I *think* that Scotch tape in the US is pretty much like Sellotape here in that it's the same sort of stuff just a different brand name has become generic IYSWIM.

Depends on the conditions. Sometimes Sellotape just goes very hard. The adhesive degrades and does horrible things to paper.

Henry

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