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Re: Screws, Tape, and other Electronic securities

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Originally Posted by CalTran View Post
On that note, how does it fare to being taken off and put back on? Is there any residue or difficulties in removal? Velcro work for us, but occasionally we have longevity issues in the repeated application and removal, resulting in the potential failure in mounting.
This depends entirely upon the tape. The VHB tape we used for the Crio is intended to be permanent. We initially used it to attach our radio to the robot as well, which nearly separated the two halves of the radio's plastic shell when we had to remove it.

If you look at the lexan chainguards running along the underside of the robot, you can see the thicker gray VHB tape holding them to the frame. That stuff is very nearly as good as the transparent tape, and retains most of it's stickiness after one or two removals.