Photographers and cinematographers are like: ohhh let me sit you down and tell you all about my love of blackwrap.

Aluminium foil is amazing stuff. Aluminium foil adhesive tape, in particular, is incredibly useful.

Being a multi-domain kind of geek the random tapes section of my tool drawers also contains mylar tape and fashion tape (or "tit tape" as a friend calls it) but the aluminium foil tape has proved to have many useful applications.

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bombcar 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My go-to "real nice when you need it" tape is to have a roll of gaffer's tape. Stuff's amazing for what it does.

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mvdtnz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Such as?

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dofm a day ago | parent [-]

I have used it to repair torn foil of photographic umbrellas and softboxes, seal light leaks on a repaired darkroom enlarger head, make a reflective pattern for a photo shoot, add a temporary airtight seal on a cracked tube with just two thin layers of tape.

The main issue with the foil tape I have is that it is both thin and very sticky so it can be a pickle to remove.

Not really tested its conductivity yet but for example I realised the other day that I could probably use it to selectively light proof a 3D printed box.

	▲	4gotunameagain 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can add a layer of another type of tape first if you need to cleanly remove it :)