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Steve
Gittins writes
I've succumbed and ordered one, so I'll report back when I've
had a
go.

A Dymo, obtainable from WH Smith costs a great deal less.

Franz

Whilst in my previous existence at sea, the company I worked for
bought a
second hand ship, those of us unfortununate enough to have to sail
in her
were at something of a disadvantage as the previous owner had been
Japanese
so we set about labelling all the valves and switches in English. I
left the
ship and rejoined her 5 years later and the dymo tape we used was
still good
after all that time even on the open deck where the sea washed over
it. The
black tape was best as the other colours fade, red is the worst, but
the
glue was the same for all!
I therefore started using dymo in the garden here, but discovered
what ever
I stuck it too always became brittle and broke, labelling is still a
work in
progress :~)

I have a few black dymo names stuck on common white plastic garden
labels, which have been in the soil for around ten years. They are
still quite legible. The main problem with them is that the
blackbirds and thrushes yank them out and throw them around at random.
Also, the blasted things snap as soon as you look at them too closely.
Why can the makers not make them twice as thick as they do?

Franz