Aluminum tape

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Original poster: "Oxandale, Terry by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Toxandale-at-SPP-dot-org>


Please don't laugh when I ask pose this concern about Aluminum tape. It
seemed to me that if aluminum tape is wrapped around an object (such as
a toroid), that the end result would be a round helical winding of
aluminum tape, rather than a solid surface toroid. I reason this to be
because the sticky backing on the backside of the tape is
non-conductive. I overlaped two pieces tonight to verify this and found
that they had no conductance between the two of them. I eventually did
get a connection after rubbing the edges real hard, but this seemed to
me to be rather undesireable (inductance in your toroid???). But I see
folks using this stuff a lot.. Is this a non-issue that only I have a
concern about.

Terry (Un-Terry)