Re: Looking for thin, metal tape for shielding

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Its called "conductive aluminum tape" (seriously).  You can probably pick
some up at a local hardware store next to the duct tape.

I think 3M offers it for sale as an OEM, but I doubt you're interested in a
large quantity--I expect that you only need a few inches to repair the
shield.  However, if you can't find what you want at a local hardware store
you can probably get free samples from 3M.

The word *conductive* is critical -- using non-conductive tape would create
a really large metal-oxide-metal transistor.  Moreover, it could be unsafe
since the ungrounded metal tape is capacitively coupled to a high voltage
source.

- Mike