Luckily, my old house is mostly lathe and plaster, which presents a whole ... I typically use paper tape, but have struggled with adhesion issues from time to time, getting bubbles or blisters ...

Though it is many decades since paper tape was commonly used as a data input or storage medium, it still holds a fascination for many who work with computers. Over the years we’ve featured more ...

drywall is a very thin material so it is mostly used to cover bad walls: cracked plaster or unremovable ... for the first ...

The clear tape was used to repair a myriad of things: paper pages and even paper money, window curtains, damaged manicures, cracked ceiling plaster, and even—still a common use today—for de ...

The obvious choice is to make a (punched) paper tape reader, but how does one go about this, and what options exist here? With a few historical examples as reference and the tape reader on the ...