Painter’s Tape and a Homemade Dispenser

Painter's tape is rather handy stuff. It holds things around my shop yet readily comes off without leaving a sticky residue behind. However, when I forget to double the end over, it can be annoying trying to find where to pull. Furthermore, I seem to always leave a narrow strip of tape on the roll and rarely tear straight across.

Using a piece of worn-out hacksaw blade, I have made a rather nice tape dispenser. The good news here is that my tape problem has been solved. The bad news, according to my wife, is that I have justified not throwing anything away.

If you are interested, please see

https://rick.sparber.org/TapeDispenser.pdf

Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.


Thanks,

Rick

That is better than my old method of tearing off a small bit of butchers paper/cardboard/ even painters tape & sticking under the end for easy access & use it many times. Your hacksaw blades looks much bigger than mine and I might do one like that when I have the spare time but most of my blades become broken & used in another saw.
Thanks for posting Rick.

Thanks Rick! We've added your Tape Dispenser to our Miscellaneous category, as well as to your builder page: Rick's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

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