Help with Safety and Reflective Tapes specifications:
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| Reflective | Reflective films are used to control radiant heat or enhance display brightness. Reflective tapes are highly visible and provide warnings about unsafe conditions. Reflective tapes are used in rotating or moving equipment to trigger proximity sensors, or enable a tachometer to make readings. | ||
| Safety / Flagging | Safety film and tape products are used for flagging, or as barricade tape. Reflective tapes are often used in safety applications. | ||
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Configuration
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| Width | Enter the desired product width. | ||
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| Thickness | Thickness is the distance from one surface of a tape, film, or laminate backing or adhesive to the other. It is usually expressed in mils or thousandths of an inch, and is measured under slight pressure with a special gauge. | ||
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Materials
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| Carrier / Backing Material: | The carrier or backing is a relatively thin, flexible material to which an adhesive is applied. | ||
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| Cloth - Woven Fabric | Cloth products incorporate woven cloth or a fabric layer(s) for reinforcement, improved strength, heat resistance, or electrical properties. | ||
| Metal Foil / Sheet | Metal foil tapes have aluminum, aluminum-reinforced, and lead backings | ||
| Paper | Paper or flatback products have a paper backing. | ||
| Plastic / Polymer | Plastic products incorporate one or more plastic layers, or consist of plastic film or sheets that can be clear or colored, printed or plain, single-layered or multilayered, and combined with materials such as aluminum and paper. There are two general categories of plastics: thermoplastics and thermosets. | ||
| Rubber | Products use a rubber backing in the form of a tape, film, or laminate. | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other unlisted backing materials. | ||
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| Non-adhesive | Non-adhesive tapes, films or laminates do not have an applied adhesive, but may be self-adhering. PTFE thread-sealing tape is a type of non-adhesive tape. | ||
| Acrylic | Acrylic adhesives provide excellent environmental resistance and faster setting times than other resin systems. | ||
| Epoxy | Epoxy resins are adhesives that exhibit high strength and low shrinkage during curing. Epoxies are known for their toughness and resistance to chemical and environmental damage. | ||
| Hot Melt / Heat Activated | Heat activated, thermally activating, or heat bond adhesives become tacky or sticky when heat is applied. The adhesive may soften, but not necessarily melt. Hot melt adhesives can be repeatably softened and melted by heat, and hardened or set by cooling. Cooling allows the removal or repositioning of parts during assembly. | ||
| Pressure Sensitive (PSA) | Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) or contact adhesives are aggressively and permanently tacky at room temperature in dry (solvent free) form. They adhere firmly to a variety of dissimilar surfaces upon contact, requiring only the application of finger or hand pressure. PSAs do not require water, solvent, or heat activation in order to exert a strong adhesive force on materials such as paper, plastic, glass, wood, cement, and metal. PSAs have a sufficiently cohesive holding and elastic nature so that despite their aggressive tackiness, they can be manipulated by hand and removed from smooth surfaces without leaving a residue. In terms of general trade usage, leading tape manufacturers do not sanction the extension of the term “pressure sensitive” to include tapes and adhesives just because they are sticky (e.g., fly-paper), or just because they adhere or cohere. | ||
| Rubber | Rubber-based adhesives provide highly flexible bonds and are usually based on butadiene-styrene, butyl, polyisobutylene, or nitrile compounds. | ||
| Silicone | Silicone adhesives and sealants have a high degree of flexibility and very high temperature resistance. | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other unlisted adhesive types. | ||
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| Single-Sided Adhesive? | With single-sided tapes and films, only one side is coated with adhesive. | ||
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Performance
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| Peel Strength / Adhesion | Peel strength or adhesion is the force required to separate two bonded surfaces. | ||
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| Temperature Resistance | Temperature resistance is the maximum temperature that products can withstand. | ||
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Features
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| Dielectric / Insulating | Dielectric tapes are used as membrane dielectrics in multilayer capacitors. These tapes consist of an acrylic polymer mixed with a dielectric solid. | ||
| Electrically Conductive | Electrically conductive products can conduct electricity and provide protection from electrostatic discharge (ESD). They may also provide shielding from electromagnetic interference (EMI) or radio frequency interference (RFI). Conductive tapes and films are used in electrical heating elements and other electronics applications. | ||
| EMI / RFI Shielding | EMI or RFI shielding products can provide protection or shielding from electromagnetic interference (EMI) or radio frequency interference (RFI). Most shielding products use a conductive material to surround the device or equipment requiring shielding. Conductive EMI shielding works on the electric field portion of the electromagnetic wave or interference. Magnetic shielding is less common. | ||
| Permanent | Once applied, products become permanently bonded to the substrate. | ||
| Protective Tape | Products are used to form a protective layer on the substrate, and to provide protection against wear, corrosion, dust, water, electrical discharges, oil or grease, and other environmental conditions. | ||
| Removable | Removable tapes can be applied and then removed without damaging the substrate, but not necessarily reused or repositioned. | ||
| Thermally Insulating / Insulative | Thermally insulating or insulative products, such as structural insulative panels (SIP), provide insulation from heat. | ||
| Transparent | Transparent products allow the transmission of light. A tape is rated as transparent if 10-point type can be read easily when the tape is applied directly over it. | ||
| UV / Weather Resistant | Weather resistant products are suitable for outdoor use and resistant to ultraviolet (UV) light, cold, heat, water or other weather conditions. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted or proprietary features. | ||
| Anti-static / ESD Control | Tapes or film products have anti-static, static dissipating, or electrostatic discharge (ESD) control features. Typically, ESD control products have conductive, friction reducing, or ionizing characteristics. | ||
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