Taping tools

What’s is your guys’ go-to method for taping your tool shafts? What type of tape do you use? Do you underlay anything under the tape? Thanks!

https://www.mountainproject.com/forum/topic/119695842/what-do-you-personally-use-to-wrap-above-the-grip-on-your-ice-tool

Personally I just spray them down with flex seal, if it’s good enough for Billy Mays then it’s good enough for me.

Colton H wrote:

Personally I just spray them down with flex seal, if it’s good enough for Billy Mays then it’s good enough for me.

This is a serious question, if you can’t give me a serious answer please see yourself out of my thread. Thank you

Colton H wrote:

if it’s good enough for Billy Mays then it’s good enough for me.

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I use Scotch Linerless Electrical rubber splicing tape #2242.

Cost is about $6

This stuff is my favorite so far, I prefer it over any of the 3m stuff and over bike tube, its more tacky in my opinion. I finish the wrap with electrical tape

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Zach Jones wrote:

This is a serious question, if you can’t give me a serious answer please see yourself out of my thread. Thank you.

Ahh this isn't one of those silly threads.  It's a serious one.  No jokes boys!

Seriously... 

I use the scotch rubber mastic tape. Or I found some thinner sticky tape at home depot.  The rubber mastic is easy to find.  

Serious tape

greggrylls wrote:

Ahh this isn't one of those silly threads.  It's a serious one.  No jokes boys!

Seriously... 

I use the scotch rubber mastic tape. Or I found some thinner sticky tape at home depot.  The rubber mastic is easy to find.  

Serious tape

NO silliness allowed here.

Thanks for the info homie 

Why don’t you paint your tools with rubber cement? Just carry an extra bottle in your pack if it starts to wear off.

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3m Temflex #2155 from home depot or lowes is pretty much exactly the same as what Petzl uses, and what I used to wrap my nomics for dry tooling. Old bike inner tubes sliced down the center then taped up at the end work just as well, if not better, and are a more sustainable alternative. You can get old road bike tubes for free from most bicycle shops. 

Underlay with Kraft singles. By end of the season it's fine aged cheddar. 

Scotch mastic 2228, works great, long lasting and not a lot of $$$

alpinejason wrote:

Underlay with Kraft singles. By end of the season it's fine aged cheddar. 

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