Mystik tape: does anyone remember it?

RandomTroll · 10-22-2023, 08:11 PM

In the '50s and '60s, there was a tape named 'Mystik'. It was cloth and tough and came in colors. I just searched on "mystik tape" and found a 'Mystik tape corporation' that makes adhesives for the airplane industry. Its tapes are different. Other searches were deadends. Does anyone remember it? This is in the USofA.

frankbell · 10-22-2023, 08:19 PM

I can't remember ever using it, but I do indeed remember seeing it in my local five and dime store.

Remember five and dime stores?

RandomTroll · 10-22-2023, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by frankbell

I can't remember ever using it, but I do indeed remember seeing it in my local five and dime store.

A search on mystik tape at ebay.com turned up display racks and brochures: it was indeed colored cloth tape. Odd it has no Wikipedia entry. I think it must have cost more than a dime, even in the '50s.

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Originally Posted by frankbell

Remember five and dime stores?

Yes. They're now dollar stores. Ever see 'Come back to the five&dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean'?

scasey · 10-22-2023, 11:04 PM

I remember it. Used it. Thought of it as colored duct tape, which it kind of was.

sundialsvcs · 10-29-2023, 11:00 AM

This tape does not yet have a WikiPedia entry? Why is that??

rokytnji · 10-31-2023, 01:22 AM

If it is the aluminum foil looking tape. I keep a few rolls in the shop. It covers rusted holes.

Since it is bendable.

RandomTroll · 10-31-2023, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by rokytnji

If it is the aluminum foil looking tape.

The alumin(i)um tape I use is great. Perhaps the new Mystik tape, made by the aerospace adhesives firm, is like that. But it isn't the colored cloth tape of the '50s and '60s of that name.