Are they terrible or am I using it wrong?
They’re fantastic for boxes.
A good one of these makes moving much easier and less painful and aggravating than the cheap ones or the plastic things. Just don’t use it too long, take breaks if you’re making a lot of boxes at once. You can stress your hand and wrist using it.
There’s also a technique to it, which you can find examples of online. Try a few ways and see which works for you. Also practice helps. 😁
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You must either have a bad one or you’re using it wrong. The one we have is amazing.
User error
Skill issue
Git gud n00b
Git good?
I actually have git aliased to my GitHub repo so this is very hard for me to type.
If you don’t have the tape facing the wrong direction, it should work effortlessly. Many fail to understand the razor and plastic shield mechanism that leverages tension to make a clean tear tho. The tape can melt and be tough to use. You could also have a low quality item technically but even cheap ones are fairly manageable for a while
Source: An embarrassing amount of exp honestlyI use them everyday. I work in logistics. Trick number one is to have special tape that isn’t as loud when unrolling it.
Tip number two is just use your finger to put the first bit on, hold it with the finger and do the rest. At the end, push the top part against the box to make the knife cut the tape.
Wipe over the tape with your finger if needed, some tapes and kinds of carton don’t have much holding power. If you move your fingers over the tape, you’ll heat up the glue and it will stick better.
You got one of the nice ones there. Play with the tension on the wheel. If it’s too tight the blue metal piece will bend and that causes the tape to slide off. If it’s an old worm out tape gun, you can bend that blue metal back pretty easily.
don’t use UPS brand tape for these things
A triangle shaped thumb nail and the tape roll alone is all you need to be lightning fast. Seen pros do it for a living, so I had to try. Beats these things by a mile!
Depends on the item.
Some are great some are annoying.But generally: Skill issue
I think they’re fine but kind of unnecessary unless you’re boxing a bunch of stuff. If you’re moving or do online sales on e-bay or whatever it might be worth picking up a quality one but otherwise just buy a roll of packing tape.
I got one the last time I moved houses. Now I’m very glad I have one whenever I am about to send or return a package, reinforce a box or do some quick and dirty fixes that would make landlords weep.
I don’t think it’s possible to use sheathing tape without one.
Bought one when moved to a different country and had to pack a lots of big boxes.
Its great time saver, only downside is how god awful loud they can be.
I felt dumb at some point to put hearing protection on for using these things. But they are actually realling fucking loud.
Cheap ones are s##t, worn out ones are also s##t. Adjusting the tension on the tape roller is a fine art as batch to batch the glue can change.
God I need to get out more !
You can say “shit” on the Internet.
They’re being brainwashed by corpo social media to self-censor, a necessary 1984 step.
Edit: Fuck.
Best edit ever.
Also, fuck.
Is it brainwashing, or adapting to circumvent actual censorship? People say “unalive” because “kill” will hide your content from the algorithm, if it doesn’t remove it entirely.
And yet here we all are, reading your comment. Maybe the algorithms on some platforms are that aggressive, but certainly not here.
What is brainwashing if not forced adaptation to manufactured requirements?
Am you brainwashed for wearing clothes in public?
Let them self censor. It’s their comment.
I’d personally prefer to see special characters than word replacement like “unalive”
Unalive is a s##tty replacement for the word shit.
Unalive is the replacement for dead.
Well, yes. That’s why it’s a slutty replacement for s##t.
#tty
/dev/pts/0You can say slutty on the internet.
Send bobs and vagine.
How dare
I use “atropos” to replace it.
Because “thanatos” is filtered now.
There are multitudinous other words they could choose from.
Well shit, shitty, shit shit shit…
Much better, thank you
Hey, you’re trying to censor with asterisks but Lemmy interprets those as formatting instructions. If you want the asterisks to show up, you need to put a backslash in front of them like so:
Cheap ones are s\**t, worn out ones are also s\**t.
Thanks, forgot not everything is plain text !
And we’re all adult enough to handle reading the words.
It’s such a strange idea to use bad words but okay it by censoring letters out. Either use the word or don’t.
Okay. I was explaining how to do asterisks.
Sorry, it wasn’t directed towards you. I was thinking out loud.
You’re likely using it wrong. They’re great, when you have a good one.
