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Old 12-09-2011, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by sjsquirrel View Post
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Is the invisible tape you mention like "invisible" Scotch tape? Does it make the parts glossy looking? It doesn't seem to in the pictures.

And how do you manage to work with such tiny pieces of tape? I'd love to see a video of how you do all that.

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Steve

Thank you for your comments - I'm sorry about the delay responding, but I have been away for a couple of days dealing with matters connected with my father.

I have evidently been a bit misleading about the tube-rolling. I have a large selection of metal and plastic rods of different sizes which act as cores for rolling paper tubing, but however many I have they are never QUITE the right size. The "invisible" tape, which is indeed "Scotch", is there simply to wind round the core to bring it to the exact size required. It is very thin, so gives pretty fine control, important when the tubes are small-diameter like these. None of it goes on the final parts, which are all pure paper (so far, at least - I am not THAT much of a purist!)

Alan
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