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From: Frank on 25 Dec 2009 07:20
What tape of foil tape is used in iMacs? Would 3M (or any other
brand) of aluminum foil tape be ok...assuming it is aluminum. If not
aluminum, then what is it?
From: Wes Groleau on 25 Dec 2009 10:17
Frank wrote:
> What tape of foil tape is used in iMacs? Would 3M (or any other
> brand) of aluminum foil tape be ok...assuming it is aluminum. If not
> aluminum, then what is it?

Depends on what it's for and where you are putting it.

--
Wes Groleau

"What progress we are making! In the Middle Ages, they would have
burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books."
-- Sigmund Freud, 1933
"He was never to know that even that was only an illusory progress,
that ten years later they would have burned his body as well."
-- Ernest Jones, 1953
From: Davoud on 25 Dec 2009 10:42
Frank:
> What tape of foil tape is used in iMacs? Would 3M (or any other
> brand) of aluminum foil tape be ok...assuming it is aluminum. If not
> aluminum, then what is it?

Home-center aluminum foil tape will work just fine so long as you can
fit it like the original, i.e., in such a way that it is not shorting
any electrical components.

Davoud

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From: Paul Fuchs on 25 Dec 2009 13:35
Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote:

> Frank:
> > What tape of foil tape is used in iMacs? Would 3M (or any other
> > brand) of aluminum foil tape be ok...assuming it is aluminum. If not
> > aluminum, then what is it?
>
> Home-center aluminum foil tape will work just fine so long as you can
> fit it like the original, i.e., in such a way that it is not shorting
> any electrical components.
>
> Davoud

Yeah, I use that type for my hat :-)
--
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
From: isw on 26 Dec 2009 04:00
In article <251220091042457863%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net>
wrote:

> Frank:
> > What tape of foil tape is used in iMacs? Would 3M (or any other
> > brand) of aluminum foil tape be ok...assuming it is aluminum. If not
> > aluminum, then what is it?
>
> Home-center aluminum foil tape will work just fine so long as you can
> fit it like the original, i.e., in such a way that it is not shorting
> any electrical components.

That tape does not have a conductive adhesive, while *some* tapes used
for EMI suppression do. Without knowing which type is used in the iMac,
it's not easy to know if hardware-store tape will be an
equal-performance replacement.

Isaac
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