Industrial plastics: improving sustainability with carbon capture

It’s a little easier, but honestly, not by much..

If you’ve ever used any of the painting tapes before, you’ve probably noticed that they aren’t totally perfect.Even if you use a high quality tape, you’ll still often end up with paint bleeding and little blips here and there just because of user error or weird humidity or something like that.

Industrial plastics: improving sustainability with carbon capture

After I show you this little trick in a second here, you’re going to LOVE your painting tape.So here’s what I did for this little project:.After painting my base color (the grey) and letting it dry, I decided I wanted a total of 5 stripes, so I just needed to tape off 2 stripes that I would paint on top in the aqua color.

Industrial plastics: improving sustainability with carbon capture

I measured where my lines for the edges of the aqua stripes would need to go and marked 3 little dots per line, then I connected the dots with my painting tape, making sure to tape OUTSIDE the stripes that I would be painting on.. Now it’s time to go ahead and paint the aqua stripes on, right?Here’s the trick!

Industrial plastics: improving sustainability with carbon capture

I went back over the inside edges of the tape (where the aqua would be going) with the grey color again to really seal the tape down.

Any bleeding that occurs when you do this will be the base color and will be invisible!How interesting can that really be?.

The real answer is infinitely.It’s infinitely interesting to some people, and as much as I love a good wham bam before and after, I have to admit that I love the long, painful drawn-out before and afters so much more.

There’s a real life going on there.There’s a story..