Where's my Tommy Tape?

How can anyone resist a boating necessity called Tommy Tape. We have used this clinging stuff for neat, protective wraps around ugly ends; around cotter pins; and even as bandages for cuts. Everyone uses tape on sailboats anyway, but we got fed up with vinyl electrical tape that turns gooey in the summer hear; sometimes unravels on the roll in a hot cabin; and cracks and peels in the winter. There are other self adhering, form-fitting rigging tapes on the market, but they don't seem to really fuse and bond the way Tommy Tape does. It's a little difficult to start Tommy peeling from its cellophane-like strip, but it has a tenacity to it once applied (you can slice it with a razor blade to remove it; popping it right off). 

The stretchy, non-sticky, self -fusing silicone rubber tape forms an air- and water-tight bond around an object and can even be wrapped around something underwater. It takes heat to +500 deg. and cold to -85. Manufactured in Southington, Connecticut, Tommy Tape comes in assorted widths in assorted and in varying thickness (Tommy Tape can be manufactured in widths from ¼" to 2" wide, from 5 Mil to 80 Mil thick and up to 110' in length.). It is also available in a lot of colors: white, black, royal blue, yellow, gray and orange/red (and custom colors) (we also offer cherry red, green and clear as standard colors).

Courtesy of "RAGS" Sailing Magazine/May 1994 pgs. 16 & 17.