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Gorilla Tape - 2in. x 35 yards, Model# 6035180x$7.99
  (2 reviews)
Best Price: $7.99
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Customer Reviews
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Be Careful What You Wish For
By A33ZYFE8XMKKR1 on 2006-11-08
Be Careful What You Wish For
As the advertisements suggest, this tape will stick to brick and virtually any other surface. Be careful though, because it might just strip the paint upon removal. This was the painful lesson I learned when trying to temporarily hold some video cables to my wall and ceiling. Even when using a hair dryer to soften the adhesive, I was not able to prevent the paint from getting ripped off, no mater how gentle I was.
Despite my lack of success with the hair dryer, the only area where I have seen Gorilla Tape fail is in moderately-high temperature applications. For example, I wanted to use the tape to patch small leaks around the exhaust hose of a new portable air conditioner. The warm air would simply soften the adhesive over time, causing it to fall off.
It would be nice if a version of Gorilla Tape had nylon filaments, similar to strapping tape. While strong, Gorilla Tape does not have the tensile strength provided by such reinforcing fibers. This feature would then allow Gorilla Tape to be employed in a number of other applications where it could serve as a structural element instead of merely a bonding medium.
Pros
Excellent adhesive qualities
Cross woven fibers
Cons
Doesn't hold up in moderately high temperatures
No nylon filament reinforcement
Stickiness can make some applications difficult
STICKY BUT NOT AS STRONG OR HEAT RESISTENT AS IT SHOULD BE -- OUR SOLUTION WAS A GLUE GUN!,
By A26HFSVLAGULIM on 2007-08-07
IN A NUTSHELL:
If "Duck Tape" is not sticky enough and "Gorilla Tape" is not durable enough perhaps it is time to try something different?
The solution for us was a glue gun and there are different types of glue that are available to be loaded in the gun depending on your needs.
JUST WHAT'S WHAT WITH GORILLA GLUE?
Essentially all the virtues and shortcomings of this product have been well articulated by other reviewers except perhaps for the sheer frustration that using the wrong sticky product can fill one's day with.
Gorilla Glue's virtue, it is very sticky, is made into a fatal weakness due to the tape's lack of strength, compared to the bond it provides compounded by its lack of durability when exposed to the elements. In practice, the surfaces that you want to keep joined eventually come apart because the tape fails. The bond stays strong but the structure of the tape is niether strong enough nor weather resistant enough to provide a long lasting bond.
BOTTOM LINE: WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT PRODUCT IF THE TAPE WERE STRONGER AND MORE WEATHER RESISTANT
[I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY PRODUCT OR COMPANY]
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