Painter's Tape

kenchan

no you just read it wrong. read it again.

why the hell would i tape my car vertically when it's horizontally longer? if i tape vertically that means i need to worry about drag on both sides of the car which can potentially catch the tape to fling off.

waaaasabi

In my experience, the problem with doing it horizontally (even going from top to bottom with overlap ala Kenchan's method) is that if you encounter adverse weather (i.e. a storm or whatever), the tape will loosen up a bit and it'll catch more wind horizontally than vertically (since you're moving forward). Kenchan's method will prevent the tape from mostly flying off, but there will definitely be parts that will lift up/come off and fling about. When I switched to doing it vertically (experimented with starting from the middle, then from the sides), I didn't have a problem with any areas coming off, even in rain. Obviously, the downside to the vertical pattern is that it is more costly, in terms of both time and material.

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That's SOOOO not Raven!

kenchan

we should just do the horizontal method, followed by another layer done in verticle method, then finished off in a X pattern method on top of that in a random orientation.