Gorilla Tape 1.88-Inch by 35-Yard Tape Roll
by Gorilla Tape
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Gorilla Tape 1.88-Inch by 35-Yard Tape Roll
Customer Review: A Great Duct Tape for Use-Specific Applications
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think there is a perfect type of duct tape out there that will do every kind of task for which duct tape was designed for. Gorilla tape is for jobs that require a thicker duct tape; about twice as thick as the regular kind, and for those jobs that require the tape to have very little stretch. This tape is great for outdoor applications, where the tape will be exposed to the elements.
Before I started using it, I read that it has too much adhesive on it, but I disagree. It has the right amount of adhesive...to stick to porous surfaces like brickwork and wood. And when you peel it off, there is hardly any residual adhesive remaining on the surface. I also read that Gorilla tape smells awful, but it does not....it smells like licorice and paint thinner...and you'd literally have to have the tape right against your nose to be able to smell it.
For its double thickness, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily this tape can be torn to size by hand. No knife or scissors are needed to cut it.
Because this is a use-specific product, this and other brands of duct tape are NOT made for packing carboard boxes...use packing tape instead! Packing tape is made to stretch before it tears. Packing tape is made to be cut by a knife or scissors; and packing tape is made to stick to cardboard. If you use Gorilla tape or another brand for packaging, the tape will eventually tear at the edges of the cardboard box (where there is motion), so don't use any duct tape for packaging...duct tape is not designed to perform like packing tape. Also, duct tape is not designed to be used as painters' masking tape....with Gorilla tape's extra adhesive, it would be a disaster when you peel it off and find out you took pieces of drywall or plaster with it! Duct tape is not masking tape, so don't expect it to perform like masking tape.
If I had to pick one brand of duct tape to keep in the car for emergencies or in my tool box, Gorilla tape would be my choice.
Customer Review: Be Careful What You Wish For
Summary: 5 Stars
As the advertisements suggest, this tape will stick to brick and virtually any other surface. Be careful though, because it might just strip the paint upon removal. This was the painful lesson I learned when trying to temporarily hold some video cables to my wall and ceiling. Even when using a hair dryer to soften the adhesive, I was not able to prevent the paint from getting ripped off, no mater how gentle I was.
Despite my lack of success with the hair dryer, the only area where I have seen Gorilla Tape fail is in moderately-high temperature applications. For example, I wanted to use the tape to patch small leaks around the exhaust hose of a new portable air conditioner. The warm air would simply soften the adhesive over time, causing it to fall off.
It would be nice if a version of Gorilla Tape had nylon filaments, similar to strapping tape. While strong, Gorilla Tape does not have the tensile strength provided by such reinforcing fibers. This feature would then allow Gorilla Tape to be employed in a number of other applications where it could serve as a structural element instead of merely a bonding medium.
Pros
Excellent adhesive qualities
Cross woven fibers
Cons
Doesn't hold up in moderately high temperatures
No nylon filament reinforcement
Stickiness can make some applications difficult
Customer Review: STICKY BUT NOT AS STRONG OR HEAT RESISTENT AS IT SHOULD BE -- OUR SOLUTION WAS A GLUE GUN!
Summary: 3 Stars
IN A NUTSHELL:
If "Duck Tape" is not sticky enough and "Gorilla Tape" is not durable enough perhaps it is time to try something different?
The solution for us was a glue gun and there are different types of glue that are available to be loaded in the gun depending on your needs.
JUST WHAT'S WHAT WITH GORILLA GLUE?
Essentially all the virtues and shortcomings of this product have been well articulated by other reviewers except perhaps for the sheer frustration that using the wrong sticky product can fill one's day with.
Gorilla Glue's virtue, it is very sticky, is made into a fatal weakness due to the tape's lack of strength, compared to the bond it provides compounded by its lack of durability when exposed to the elements. In practice, the surfaces that you want to keep joined eventually come apart because the tape fails. The bond stays strong but the structure of the tape is niether strong enough nor weather resistant enough to provide a long lasting bond.
BOTTOM LINE: WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT PRODUCT IF THE TAPE WERE STRONGER AND MORE WEATHER RESISTANT
[I AM NOT AFFILIATED WITH ANY PRODUCT OR COMPANY]
Customer Review: Adhesiveness does not equal strength - and it has a horrible odor
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this tape thinking it would be better than duct tape. It wasn't.
Yes, Gorilla tape is sticky. And yes, it's probably stickier than duct tape. But that doesn't mean it's as strong.
I taped a plastic crate that I use for hauling packages to the Post Office. The side of the crate had cracked and needed to be repaired. I used a a good three foot strip of tape that extended half way around the crate. After a few weeks of use the tape completely failed - it literally split in two like masking tape. I simply pulled the crate out of the back of my car and one of edges of it (the crate, not the tape) caught on the bottom. I tugged a little and that little bit of pressure popped the tape right in two as if it were nothing. I have never seen duct tape behave like this, not once.
One more thing - this tape has a horrible odor. Think wet dog or old socks stink. Whatever you use it on will stink for days.
Not sure if I just got a bad roll or if other reviewers used the tape for other purposes. But there's no way I'd ever buy another roll of this.
Customer Review: Strong, sticky tape. No joke, this is serious tape.
Summary: 5 Stars
I hate weak duct tape. I hate when you cannot secure thick cords and cables to the ceiling, catch pesky insects with makeshift adhesive traps, or even remove clothing fuzz due to an inadequate stickiness. I had suffered through at least 3 different rolls of comparable-to-scotch duct tape in my lifetime before college, and one of my first acts of independence was getting some hardcore tape that would go the distance. This is that tape. I look back at all of the things I have taped with fondness now that I have moved to Gorilla tape. Thank you, Gorilla tape!