I just (less than a month ago) completed building K2 #6098 for a friend.
I found that (for both pads) I'd managed to remove the backing paper
AND the adhesive at the SAME TIME!!! Adhesive remained on the
backing paper!!! Couldn't get it to walk back to the pad... tried
offering it food, but it refused to move... finally used some
(double-sided) 3M Poster Tape which I had on hand... now they stick nicely!
Getting the backing paper off the pad without removing the adhesive
IS a problem... but one which CAN (usually) be avoided if you try to
remove the paper from a different corner of the pad if you first the
first corner allowed the adhesive to stick to the paper.
Of course, this all in retrospect for me!!! And... I KNEW I had the
double[sided tape handy, so I didn't try all the hard to 'save' the
original adhesive.
If you don't have THIN double-sided tape handy, before you accidently
peel off the adhesive, CHECK to see which item (backing paper or pad)
it's attached to before you go too far. It takes a pretty 'fine
touch' when picking at the corner of the paper, to NOT get the adhesive too.
73,
Tom N0SS
At 11:28 AM 5/28/2007, Fred (FL) wrote:
When I built K2 # 54xx - I had the same problem
with the supplied sticky pads. Seemed like they
had bummer poor adhesive, or else the part they
stuck to was waxy or something? I'm not sure if
I ended up using them - or I might have bought
replacement pads at Home Depot.
de Fred N3CSY
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