7 Secrets of masking tape that can be useful to you
Basically, the masking tape is used for painting various surfaces to protect portions that should not be painted. But this does not end its use. Today you will learn 7 secrets of masking tape that can come in handy handyman.
1. Using masking tape is very easy and quick to do the layout for drilling dowel holes, eg for shelves with furniture hangers, which are to the rear. Focusing exactly over the holes, glue tape. Then we draw out a pencil themselves holes and remove the tape.
Glue the masking tape on the wall and marking ready. You can start drilling holes.
2. Masking tape will be very helpful when puttying recesses of screws or nails. Putty very strongly eats into a tree, forming spots, which are difficult to polish. Subsequently, these places can visually stand out under the varnish. To avoid this, it is pasted on top of the masking tape, pierced her cap screws and then later shpatlyuem.
So any excess putty remains on the adhesive tape, which is then easy to remove.
3. To avoid contamination of the handle brush or trowel during operation, it is possible to roll masking tape. Thus the pen tool after the dirty work will be like new, and you do not have to tear off from her paint or putty.
4. If the screwdriver bit or screwdriver badly hold screw (no magnetic tip), then come to the aid of masking tape. Tear off a piece of masking tape and pierces her self-tapping with the adhesive side.
And then fasten it on a bit. Thus, you will be able to tighten the screw even in remote places.
5. If you suddenly lost the cap from the tube of glue, it does not matter. You can tightly roll up the spout tube masking tape and then glue does not dry up.
6. Masking tape will not get lost when dismantling the small details of any tool or device. To do this, you just need to wrap a piece of wood with tape, sticky side out, and all items will be based on your location.
7. Often it is very difficult to make a marking pencil in dark or smooth surfaces (varnished surface or tiles). But if you stick masking tape on top of this problem will not be.
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