The Dual Lock reclosable fasteners from 3M are one of the best fastening solutions for a variety of different needs. You can get clean and neat fastening without the use of rivets, screws or bolts. A pair of complimentary tapes is stuck to the two surfaces that need to be fastened together. The strong adhesive backings in the tape help them to stick well to the substrate. The other side of the tape surfaces have hundreds of stems that are mushroom-shaped, enabling them to snap to each other for a tight fit. You can in fact hear them audibly snap together. If the product is not aligned properly, you can take them apart quite easily and realign and reattach the surfaces with minimum effort.
The 3M Dual Lock is ideal for fastening household objects together. For instance, if you wanted to hang a picture frame on the wall, you would normally have to drive a nail through the wall and then hang the picture on the nail. But with the Dual lock tape, you can stick one surface of the tape to the wall and the other surface to the picture frame. You can then press the frame onto the wall, and the mushroom-shaped stems would fit together perfectly and hold the frame tightly to the wall. Although the stems have a low profile, they provide high tensile strength. You can stick the tape even to substrates like acrylic, sealed wood and power-coat surfaces which are usually hard to stick to. The tape is 5/8 inches wide and 10 feet long. The tape performs well even at low temperatures. Its peel strength is very high for a wide variety of surfaces.
The Dual Lock reclosable fasteners from 3M are ideal for fixing one object to another without messy nails and fasteners. The concept used in Dual Lock is very similar to that used in Velcro, although both products are not the same. There are 705 stems per square inch in Dual Lock tape which provides four times more tensile strength than the hook-and-loop fasteners used in Velcro. This results in better adhesion and the ability to support heavier objects.
There are a number of different places from which you can purchase 3M Dual Lock tapes. Home Depot is probably the best source since you can find a lot of home improvement material in each store. The fact that Home Depot is the biggest retailer of home improvement products in the United States, would make them an ideal choice for getting 3M Dual Lock tapes.
