Puebco Tape Dispensers
I have no love for sand-filled plastic tape dispensers. Please, give me cast iron and simplicity and mass.
Puebco delivers. This Japanese company designs ingenious products using recycled materials and hand labor from developing nations. Sometimes they hit a home run. Sometimes not. But the cast-iron Puebco tape dispenser is a huge winner.
It is two pieces: a wheel for the tape. Plus a base to hold it down to the bench. It holds 3″-diameter tape rolls with tape that is up to 3/4″ wide. It is the perfect blue tape dispenser.
There is very little else to say about it that the photos do not convey. It is heavy. It is available in three colors. It will change your taping life. Yes, it’s $58. But I can’t find another new one that I like better for less money.
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Nice one! I hounded flea markets and the web to find old cast iron versions of said dispensers. I have two now. Old, cool and covered in wrinkle finish paint. When you tug on the tape, they don’t move. Lovely!
This looks awesome. And i seem to go through painters tape for so many things. Just the past couple months i have used it for makeshift clamps on smaller odd shaped glue-ups, actually masking stuff for paint, protecting paint on cars while doing minor bodywork-removing and re-installing a bumper, taping over walnut to mark for dovetails, and a few other uses.
I have a large dual 3” weighted metal tape dispenser in which I removed the sand and filled it with lead shot. Stays put!