The blue stuff is used by carpenters, woodworking places will have it. A
bit odd it handles high temperatures.
Kapton tape is what you 'usually' use, it's good to around 300 celcius
(550F?). Used in powdercoating to mask off the stuff you don't want coated.
Comes in green and brown, I've found the brown stuff sticks better and comes
off cleaner (no gummy bits) if you pull it off gently.
www.dealextreme.com have the brown tape in various widths, 3mm-20mm if I
recall. It's pretty cheap (<$5 per roll), and you can use it to tape down
wires, sensors and other stuff without worrying about it melting. The
website says 200 degrees C in some places, but that's a typo.
Tony
> There is a black high-temp masking tape I used to buy when I was putting
> pictures on ceramic mugs. One day I ran out and grabbed a roll of regular
> masking tape to give it a try, it worked! It was a little gummy, though.
> But when I tried the blue masking tape, it worked great without the gummy
> stuff.
>
> I know a lot of members of the Inkjet Heat Transfers group are using that
> same blue masking tape in heat presses successfully. Dye sub requires
> temperatures well in excess of 400F.
>
> Steve Greenfield
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Donald H Locker <dhlocker@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> What did you use to tape it to the carrier paper? Is there a special
>> high-temp adhesive tape for this?
>>
>> (I did try Reynolds baking paper without carrier once, but it crinkled in
>> the printer and was a right pain to remove. So I won't do that again :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Donald.