Tape storage ideas

[Jack Frederick]

it is remarkable how many different types of tape a shop can accumulate. I'm fixing to make a long board with dowels set to carry the rolls, but thought I'd ask the question first. Has anything worked well for you in the tape storage dept?

[glenn bradley]

Drawers with and without dividers.

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[Jim Becker]

I now have the tape I use the most (blue and orange "masking" tape) on heavy dispensers from StewMac (guitar stuff supplier) and keep the rest of my tape that is used only sporadically on the top shelf of my "glue" cabinet in the shop.

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[Bill Dufour]

I have a couple of the 2" video tape cans I use to store Christmas lights. It took a long time to unwind the tape into the trash. It was some sitcom from the 80's
Bill D.

[Rick Potter]

I have the type you are suggesting. A board with six 10" dowels on it. I mounted it high, and it takes up little room, but stores lots of tapes, as well as sweat bands and ear muffs.

Hmm. Just offhand, I have masking tape in several sizes, duct tape, three kinds of teflon tape, friction tape, and electrical tape on it, plus the other things above. All in an area about 2' long and 10" high. Band saw blades are above it, and I get them down with a grabber, which is one of my favorite tools, as I get older.

[Clint Baxter]

My tape resides in a drawer as well. Leastways the rolls that managed to make it home. Seems like there are always several rolls roaming around somewhere in the shop.

Clint

[Alan Lightstone]

In a bin in a cabinet. Never dedicated drawer space to it. Seems like too many rolls to do that.

[Stan Calow]

No, but I find if I put them in a box or drawer, I'll never find them again. I'm trying to keep them hanging on long tangs on a tool pegboard so I can see them from across the room

[Paul F Franklin]

I keep most of mine in a big plastic bin with a snap on top. It seems to keep them from drying out (the ones that are prone to that, anyway). The two or three that are most used live in a drawer under my bench. Electrical tape lives in the electrical tools go bag, but in the plastic cases good tape comes in.