Duct tape is fine as long as you 1) never have to touch it when wet, warm, or cold. Or 2) don't have to remove or look at it.
On a budget, come on let's give the guys some slack, we have all experienced
gaff tape burned into a
Leko now haven't we. Some things you do just have to experience. Too bad also most schools if smart won't let the kids near Goof Off as it's kind of hazzardess to one's health in spite of being about all that will take the goo away - at least from fresh tape.
Had I a dime for every
roll of
gaff tape someone closed up a box with or lost during a show I would be rich or be able to supply all schools near me. Still you might ask your local
IATSE shop if they might keep some stray rolls of it for you. Might be possible to arrange.
I buy something like 6 to 800 rolls of just black
gaff tape a year, and rearely see it coming back from shows. What do the local
stage hands have a side gig in selling it off to high schools that can't afford it, are their cars not already full of it, or is it too difficult to put it back in the
road case you got it out of when done, much less pick it up instead of sweeping it into the trash.
he he he, yea and they want all the colors of the rainbow in
gaff tape too, so they can color cold the boxes of broken gear they
send back by way of
UPS with
fluorescent colors, or
mark cases with it saying "full".
You get noting, you get
PVC tape at 1/8 the cost instead... Kind of a nick name for myself having to do with a certain soup sales person from Sinefeld.