Masking paper tape
Masking tape is a highly specialized masking and protective tool. Its excellent adherence, impermeability, and trace-free finish make it a crucial tool for any painting, coating, or coating process requiring precise area separation and protection.
Features: 1. Clean removal 2. Good Conformability 3. Easy hand tearing
Applications: 1. Building and construction, painting 2. Automotive 3. Electronics 4. Office, arts, and crafts
Detailed description
Masking tape offers excellent flexibility, high heat resistance, and no adhesive residue. It is widely used for masking and protecting various surface treatments, such as painting, electroplating, and powder coating. It is particularly suitable for masking and protecting curved surfaces.
Related Specifications
| Series | Product code | Adhesive | Material | Standard size) | Tack (N) | Adhesion (N/25mm) | Tensile strength (N/25mm) | Temperature resistance (℃) | ||
| Thickness (mm) | Width (mm) | Long (m) | ||||||||
| Masking paper tape | CM8T | Silicone | Masking paper PET | 0.22 | 980 | 33 | 9↑ | 5↑ | 180↑ | 200 |
| Masking paper tape | CM8K | Silicone | Masking paper PI | 0.22 | 980 | 33 | 9↑ | 5↑ | 180↑ | 250 |
| Masking paper tape | CM01 | Rubber | Masking paper | 0.13 | 1250 | 33 | 10↑ | 6↑ | 30↑ | 80 |
| Masking paper tape | CM05 | Rubber | Masking paper | 0.14 | 980 | 33 | 10↑ | 6↑ | 40↑ | 100 |
FAQ
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The core characteristics of masking tapes revolve around the ultimate goals of “effective protection” and “perfect removal.” The following are the core characteristics that all masking tapes must possess:
1. Clean Removal & Residue-Free:
This is the most fundamental and critical characteristic. Regardless of the extreme temperatures or chemical exposure, the tape must be removed completely and cleanly after its task, leaving no adhesive residue and without damaging the masked workpiece surface. This is the primary criterion for evaluating the performance of a good masking tape.
2. Sharp Paint Line:
The edge of the tape must adhere closely to the workpiece surface, forming a clear, sharp boundary. This effectively prevents paint, coatings, or plating solutions from seeping through the edge of the tape, ensuring a clear, clean, and aesthetically pleasing demarcation between the processing area and the protected area. Thin, tough substrates (such as PET) generally perform better in this regard.
3. Process Resistance:
This means that the tape must be able to withstand the rigors of a specific production process without failure. Specifically, they include:
High-temperature resistance: Remains stable in high-temperature environments such as paint baking and reflow soldering, without curling, shrinking, or melting.
Chemical resistance: Resists corrosion and penetration by various chemicals, solvents, and plating solutions.
Physical resistance: Resists the impact and abrasion of high-speed particles during processes like sandblasting and powder coating.
4. Good conformability: The tape must be flexible enough to easily conform to complex 3D curves, corners, and irregular workpieces, ensuring comprehensive protection without leaving any blind spots.
The performance of masking tape is determined by the combination of its backing and adhesive. Different material combinations are suitable for a wide range of applications, from ambient home improvement to high-temperature industrial paint applications and precision electronics manufacturing.
1. Backing Material
The backing material is the core of the tape, determining its strength, flexibility, conformability, and temperature resistance.
Crepe Paper:
Features: This is the most common masking backing material. Its crepe structure gives the tape excellent flexibility and conformability, allowing it to easily conform to curves and corners. Different impregnation treatments can achieve different temperature resistance levels.
PET (Polyester Film):
Features: PET backing is tough, ultra-thin, and dimensionally stable. It creates exceptionally sharp, crisp masking lines and offers excellent temperature and chemical resistance.
PI (Polyimide Film):
Features: This is the highest-temperature-resistant film backing material, capable of withstanding temperatures exceeding 260°C for extended periods. It also offers excellent chemical stability and electrical insulation. Glass Cloth:
Features: It has extremely high mechanical strength, abrasion resistance, and high-temperature resistance. It is not only heat-resistant but also provides a certain degree of thermal insulation.
II. Adhesive:
The adhesive is the key factor determining the tape’s ultimate adhesion, temperature resistance, and clean removal.
Rubber Adhesive:
Features: It has good initial tack and is relatively low cost. However, its temperature and chemical solvent resistance are relatively weak.
Acrylic Adhesive:
Features: It offers well-balanced overall performance. It has excellent adhesion and superior temperature, solvent, and UV resistance to rubber adhesives.
Silicone Adhesive:
Features: This is the highest-performing high-temperature adhesive. It maintains stable adhesion at extremely high temperatures (above 260°C). Crucially, it can be removed cleanly, even after high-temperature baking, without leaving any adhesive residue. Summary
Masking tape has a wide range of applications. Depending on its material and performance, it can be used for applications ranging from everyday home painting to high-tech industrial manufacturing. The following are its main application areas:
1. Building Decoration and Painting:
This is the most core and common application. Masking tape is used to mask areas that do not need to be painted, such as doors, windows, corners, skirtings, and switch panels, to achieve clean, clear paint edges.
2. Automotive Industry:
During the automotive painting and high-temperature baking processes, high-temperature masking tape or PET tape is used for precise masking to protect the vehicle body, windows, and components, ensuring a clear finish.
3. Electronics Manufacturing:
Gold Finger Protection: This is the most classic application of polyimide tape (gold finger tape). It is used to mask and protect gold finger contacts on printed circuit boards (PCBs) during wave soldering and reflow soldering to prevent solder contamination. Precision Masking: Use PET tape for temporary fixation and masking during the coating or soldering process of components such as capacitors and resistors.
4. Industrial Manufacturing & Processing:
High-Temperature Powder Coating/Anodizing: Use high-temperature-resistant PET tape or polyimide tape to mask workpieces to protect screw holes or specific areas from coating.
Electroplating: Use tape to protect non-plated areas during the electroplating process.
Thermal Spraying/Sandblasting: Use glass cloth tape for the highest level of masking protection in extremely harsh environments.
5. Office, Arts & Crafts:
Masking tape is used for creating blanks during painting, creating handicrafts, painting models, and for temporary marking and fixing.