I'm Pete and this is my (big) technology blog. I guess new people will think I work for them… no. ONE narrow DS foam tape I tried a while ago – 3M pro stuff was way better (stains after a while) but not in the same league as this new clear stuff. This is exciting for me (I know, easily pleased). The white Chinese foam you get in supermarkets ((UK and Spain), Poundstretcher and B&M is not worth a LIGHT. 24 hours later (hang on) yup, wall is rock solid (painted plasterboard) and side of my beige tower – 2 mains sockets – and shelf – 7 way usb – all rock solid. I have NEVER come across anything to touch this clear tape. I have other mains sockets to mount so this could be worth investigating…. “Command tapes” ? Well, I can get to B&Q this weekend. I asked why? The reply came back “I’m sorry we are now closed until Monday”. Well I’ve been trying to order 2 more rolls of Gorilla Tape, Amazon can’t deliver until late next week, CPC looked good until I noted that despite a good price and no postage, they stuck a £2 “handling charge” on the end. Sorry if I’m mising this Brian, I dont hang paintings – oh I SEE, well that has to be strong. And THAT, sad to say, took up the whole roll so I’l taken delivery of more. In the past that price alone would have put me off but I was desperate.Ī few days ago, I opened the tape reel and mounted a 7-way USB hub on the front face of my shelf, a 6-way mains extension on my plasterboard office wall – and a pair of mains extensions (one 6-way, one 4-way) on the redundant side of my tower PC. First things first, the former is not double sided (my fault) and it doesn’t seem at all special anyway.īut the GOOD news is: The Gorilla tape (from an Ebay supplier (I use Gorilla glue all the time – a true innovation but I just assumed they’d taken someone elses double sided product and put their name on it – that’s what I get for thinking), despite being obscenely expensive at £6 for 1.5 metres – WORKS. Last week in desperation at the state of cheap, primarily Chinese double sided foam tape and sockets dropping off walls by the sheer weight of their cables alone, I simultaneously went off to B&M – who also sell cheap, Chinese double-sided tape – and picked up some “T-REX Ferociously Strong Tape – Made in the USA” – and off to Ebay for some “Gorilla Heavy Duty Mounting Tape (Double Sided)”. At least in the UK you get two semi-useful mounting holes on mains sockets – in Spain you don’t even get that – and as for USB hubs… No, this is not an ad, nothing of the kind, nor do I know ANYONE at Gorilla nor their distributors – though I SHOULD.įor many years and like, no doubt, many of my subscribers, I’ve been struggling with mounting USB hubs, cameras and mains extensions on walls and shelves – very frustrating – and these days, for me, even more so as my patience is almost zero.
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