Allstar Performance ALL14252 Red 2" x 165' Gaffer's Tape

This tape is AWESOME. It actually saved me $100's in having to replace my mother's backyard door.I brought this tape in June 2014, and used it for the first time in Aug. 2014 when the back door to my mother's house completely came off the hinges. This door is actually not that old, about 12 years, I guess, but not very sturdy wood. The original door was thick and heavy, but after decades of harsh snowy Winters and rainy Spring seasons, nature finally took it's toll on the door and it needed to be replaced. The old sturdy door was replaced with a cheap door that the city put in for free under this program designed to help senior citizens. Well, instead of replacing the old worn out door pane and hinge, they attached a long, thin, strip of wood (that swings out from the door jam), to the pane, drilled holes in this thin piece of wood, and used 1/2" nails to attach the piece of wood to the new door which was actually made of cork sandwich between thin wood. The door came completely off the hinge, a few times before, unbeknown to me until this time, because the nails are so short that they only drive about 1/4" into the door. My mother had always managed to get someone to put the door back up.Well, this past winter on the east coast was as long and harsh a winter as it's ever been in decades, causing considerable damage to many homes. And in late August, yep, you guess it, the entire door fell completely off the hinge, again. The electric man had came over that day to replace the meter, which was in the back yard. After he left, I went to close the door, and it literally fell off the hinge, I had to put in some great effort to catch it and keep it from literally falling to the ground. The cork that the nails goes into was so damaged, there was no way we were getting it back up with nails.It was 90 degrees outside. And after two hours of me and my teenage daughter sweating profusely and me grumbling under my breath, I had to accept the realization that this door was not going back up, at least not in the manner it was designed to. My daughter stood looking at me pitiful, wondering what in the world I (her mom) was going to do, just she and I in the house. So we got the door back up on the top cemented step and just laid it across the opening of where the door was supposed to be and came back inside the house. It was around 5PM on a Friday afternoon, bad time for a door to come off the hinge and needing replacement.My daughter said, "mom what are you going to do?, we can't just leave the back of the house open like that"I've always been pretty good at fixing things, and improvising, but this was one situation, I wasn't so sure I could fix, and from the look on my daughter's face, she didn't look too hopeful either. The door was cheap, but it was still heavy, and she and I continuous lifting it in an effort to get it back up was taking a toll on our backs. We have a shed kitchen door with two locks on it, so if push came to shove, it would have just had to secure us through one night--that meant, I'd be sleeping like one-eye jack, and trust me, that did enter my mind.So I said to her, "I don't know, but I'll figure out something. Right now I'm just too frustrated to think."So I went upstairs and got out of the sweaty shirt, all the while thinking to myself, "you can't leave that door like that." There must be something you can do to get it back up. And just while I was thinking that I would have to leave it like that, and pay someone tomorrow to buy and put in a new door, it suddenly hit me that I had one more chance at bat, and with that revelation, I went charging back down stairs to the living room where my daughter was, and I screeched, "I got it! I got it! I know how we can get the door back up." Then I told her about this gaffer's tape I had brought a couple months ago that I haven't used yet. I said to her that I read reviews on Amazon about how strong and durable it was, so it's got to work.Without waiting for her response, I ran back up stairs and got back into my blouse. Then I grabbed the gaffer's tape that was in my bedroom and took off running back downstairs. I immediately fell into a fit of laughter at the expression I saw on my daughter's face, as if she was saying in her thoughts, "what the hell are you going to do with a roll of tape?"And once I started laughing, she laughed too. Then she just said, "mom." and I went, "I know. I Know. But we got one more chance at bat. This is it. Do or die."We got that door back up using gaffer's tape within 30 minutes.That thin strip of wood I told you about that swung out from the pane?, was how we did it. We prop the door up on the top step with bricks and held it as close to that thin strip of wood as best we could, and with me on the inside of the house and my daughter on the outside, I past long strips of tape between the door jam for her to reach, and we both tape our sides of the door, taping the long thin piece of wood that was attached to the pane to the jam of the door. We started in the center to secure the door, then worked the top and bottom, alternately, and we only used about 1/3 of the roll.Fast forward to three weeks later, the door has held up better than it did with nails in it, opens and closes better than new. As I'm finishing up this review, my daughter came in my bedroom to see what I was doing. I told her I was writing a review on the use of Gaffer's tape, how we put the door back up with it. She just smiled proudly. (She's not one for working around the house, trust me)SAVED BY GAFFER'S TAPE.! It'll Always Have A Place in my Home.

The is perfect stuff for any kinds of a cables or medium-duty, temporary adhesion. It's incredibly beefy and the perfect amount of sticky. It sticks securely to every surface I've tried (hardwood, carpet, glass, cheese...just kidding, I haven't tried cheese), and I haven't noticed any residue after peel-off whatsoever.A word of caution: if you accidentally stick the sticky sides together, you are going to have a hell of time unsticking them. This can be especially problematic upon removal. Just be careful that it doesn't wrap around your cable when you're pulling the whole thing up. If it does, and it sticks to itself, it's very difficult to remove. I have a couple cables that have a foot or two of this tape permanently stuck on them. Lesson learned.Another tip: because this tape is significantly more expensive than traditional duct tape, you can make it last longer by not covering your cables 100%. It take a tiny bit longer to tear more strips, but I usually do one foot on, one foot off. It won't affect the performance at all, and it will make your roll last literally twice as long. A roll that lasts twice as long means you spend half as much.

This is great tape!Previously, I'd have thought that any tape that looked like this would be as good. But apparently that's not always the case. I'm tossing a roll of a lookalike product in the trash, after having it fail to stick to everything I've tried to use it on. It would stick for a few hours, or a day, and then simply give up and fall off.This stuff stays where you put it, and holds firmly even for weeks at a time. Also, there's no residue on removal.I'm back here buying more of the good stuff.

I used regular duct tape to tape down wires for gymnastic meets for speakers and computers at the different apparatus for a few years until we hired a team to put in a sound system at a big event we held and they had this stuff. It's awesome. No gluey sticky mess all over the wires that takes me days to remove with goo gone or on the floor where the duct tape was peeled off. I've only left the gaffers tape down for 2 days so I can't say how easy it is to remove if you leave it down for a very long time or how it holds but for the 2 days I use it each year it's a good hold on wires that get walked on with no problems of coming loose. Have stuck it down on wood gym floors and those soft gym floors with not issues. It sticks to everything and sticks well. So I've been using this stuff since around 2010 and will continue to.

My first purchase was in 2013 ... then 2018 ... then today. Takes me a while to finish a roll. Each time I always shop around, there are some attractive offers out there. (Amazon Basics has it now) But look closely at those reviews. They don't stick or leave residue. Eff that. lolI have things I taped back in 2013 that come off clean and have held exactly the same way the entire time. It's extremely impressive. So much so that I had to finally share. This is THE BEST gaffer's tape.Sure I might save a few bucks trying something else. Let's see here -- Amazon basics would be $22.75 for an equivalent 55 Y roll (($12.41 / 30) * 55). And this is $27.64 ... easy choice, for $4.89 extra I'll definitely stick with what has worked for me over the last DECADE. :-PKeep up the great quality and work Allstar! American company on top of it all!(I'll find something I taped back in 2013 and post a picture or video.)

This is exactly what gaffer tape is supposed to be: matte cloth like finish, easy to rip and sticky enough to do the job yet easy to peel off once we have to remove it. I say this because I have purchased various brands of gaffer tape (different price points too) that don't deserve to be called gaffer tape.So this tape is great.

My favourite gaff tape for the money...less residue than competitors. I've ordered many of these after trying it.

It's like "duck" tape, but all fabric and leaves ZERO glue/residue behind.I originally bought this to use on my home-gym's weight stack risers/guide rods. There was too much noise and rattling for my liking with the rollers on bare metal. I put a 5' strip of this on each riser and the noise has noticeably lessened.Since then; I've also used it on the handle of a  folding knife  for extra grip, since you can easily stretch the tape to conform to contours. And it's original use... For covering up a cord running across a (carpeted) room. folding knife

I like this tape, it sticks like crazy... if I had to make a complaint, the only thing I'd say is, sometimes it's difficult to deploy because it's so sticky, it's a little difficult to get off the roll. However, the thing is, I need it to be that sticky on the stage, so I don't really could that as a negative.

Good Price!Just what I needed to connect white reflectors.