Million uses of drywall tape!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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There is this paper tape they use for joining seams and finishing concave corners when doing drywall. You get like 500 feet for about $3 at the home depot. Amazing material this! It’s paper, but about 2x thickness of copier paper and much stronger. There is a slight bend-line in the middle, and the tape is abou 2" wide. Sticks really well with Elmer’s glue.

Here are the many uses I find for this:

  • cover seams between foam sheets. Kept me from buying a new 2" foam, these are $30 per sheet.

  • as shims

  • as wrapper for any surface which whose texture I am trying to hide such as plywood edge

  • as a runner that is applied to the facia board top edge to make the gap between the facia board and foam disappear.

The material holds latex paints well.

Thought I would pass along.

NP.

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Good to know!

Thanks

Dave

P.S. You still need to post another 999,996 uses for it![swg][(-D][(-D][}:)]

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It’s only as good as how well it is “bonded/ glued” in place. For any areas where there may be handling, rubbing or other abuse, I would use a different material to cap, the end grain. Some used to cheat by using DW tape to form outside corners in place of a corner bead, same unsatisfactory results- not a great idea.