Learn About Tape & Equipment for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: Another thing that's really handy to have on hand, you don't need it all the time, who knows, you might not ever need it, but I like it to have it on hand is couple of different types of tape. One is just basic electrical tape, which is good for wrapping wires, for kind of, if you've stripped too much off of the wire, you can, I guess you could clip the wire but you could also use electrical tape, kind of, use an insulating tape. It's handy for some application. Another kind of tape I like to use is masking tape for a couple of things. Masking tape is really good for, if you got a project that you've, you know, done some circuit bending and there's a bunch of wires in it and their kind of all over the place. A lot of times you can, you know, gather a lot of those wires together, you know, like here's your project, and you can sort of gather a lot of those of wires together inside the project and kind of one sort of nice strand like this, and then you can use masking tape to kind of just make a little kind of belt around them and that's going to keep everything kinda nice and tight. I guess you can use little zip ties for that too, but because we're circuit bending, we're working with little things in like little cases, zip ties kind of overkill. So, masking tape does the same thing, and kind of keeps it all together. Another thing I like to use masking tape for is, we'll talk about this later, is installing metal body contacts on the outside of the project. So, for example, remember when I showed this a little bit earlier, these are body contacts here. They're pieces of metal, that internally are connected, using wires to the circuit board, but they're kind of from the outside here, so masking tape can be really useful in sort of taping these things to the outside, while you have it flipped over and your soldering kind on the inside. Because you wan these things to be flushed up against the body, so to install something like this, you have to drool a hole for each of this little steel-headed, thumbtacks, stick it in there. I'm flipping it over and I'm doing a lot of soldering. Masking tape was really helpful for just kind of keeping that stuff stuck down, so a lot of different uses for electrical tape and masking tape and circuit bending. I like to have it on hand.

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