PTFE tape

Started by spiyda, January 25, 2022, 01:09:10 PM

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spiyda

I've always had issues with various tapes feeding,  sometime adding a fishing weight to the carrier part, sometimes abandoning the cover tape take up spool and draping the cover tape over the top and adding a weight.

One thing I tried recently which seems to help a bit is covering the parts of the parts tape path after the parts are removed ( eg the inside of the front cover of the feeder, the bottom corner of the feeder and the edge of the table)

Just plain old Teflon / PTFE self adhesive tape  ( ebay item  333966417304 )  it has a low coefficient of friction and it may be my imagination but it does seem to work.

Chris

Jason

Yeah, I think it stops the tape jumping around so much.