On 20/9/04 16:18, in article , "Rodger
Whitlock" wrote:

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:20:19 +0100, Charlie Pridham wrote:

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 :~)

Buy aluminum strap, 1/2" x 1/8", cut it in suitable lengths, and
stick your dymo labels on that. But before you stick a label on
the metal, apply a thin coating of contact cement. Between the
label's own adhesive and the cement on the aluminum, a bond forms
that is nearly indestructible.

The one drawback: these labels aren't very suitable for pots, and
they look unsightly in the open garden. OTOH, if you make them a
good foot long, the birds can't fiddle with them.


One other thought has just occurred to me - if one applied a thin layer of
varnish, even clear nail varnish, to the Dymo tape, I wonder if it would
help it to be less fade prone?

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