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Gaffer tape - Definition |
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Gaffer tape is a tough, fabric backed adhesive tape that has become legendary for usefulness in the movie and entertainment industry. The tape is often black and so blends with the typically black stage floor of a theater; it is also both strong and strongly adhesive, it is ripped by hand along the horizontal or vertical axis easily rather than cut, and (unlike duct tape) leaves little to no residue when removed. Loose cables on a stage so taped down are usually said to be gaffered.
The name probably comes from gaffer, the film crew member responsible for rigging lights. Alternative names for the same tape include "bodge tape" and "black nasty".
Gaffer tapes commonly known as E.B. (General Dynamics Electric Boat Division) White and E.B. Green are used almost universally in construction of radiological contamination control enclosures in Naval Shipyards and aboard Naval Ships.
see also: adhesive tape
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