Instructions to tear off Scotch with your hands smoothly and easily

Adhesive tape is used everywhere today. Thin scotch It helps when you need to pack a box, tape a book, document or torn bill. No wonder you can easily buy scotch on almost every corner. And in the house of each of our readers probably Scotch in the household, too.

Today's edition. "Site" He suggests talking about scotch, as well as one life hack that will make using this popular duct tape even more convenient. And even if you do not have a knife, scissors or any other sharp object at hand, you will always know how to smoothly tear off Scotch with your hands.



The first duct tape, as far as we know, was invented in 1882. But it consisted of gas fabric and gutta percha. And really improved the tape was only in 1901. Then the German pharmacist Oscar Troplowitz called his invention leukoplast.

And only in the 20s of the last century, a young American laboratory technician Richard Gurley Drew managed to build a cellophane tape, the edges of which were smeared with glue. However, customers accepted the invention in bayonets, because because of the small amount of glue tape warped. And the Scottish (Scotch) leader of this inventor was even called a miser.

This is understandable, because already at that time there were legends about Scottish frugality. But anyway, Drew was able to refine his invention. He developed a way of uniformly applying glue to cellophane tape. So came Scotch, which quickly won universal love. And already during the Great Depression, Americans came up with many ways to use this duct tape.



How exactly to tear off Scotch Scotch is indispensable in the household. But often when using it, there is no knife, no scissors, or even keys with which it could be pierced. What do we do? After all, if you just try to pull, then Scotch will only stretch and will be unusable. Of course, some people tear scotch teeth, but this method seems very doubtful to us. What do we do?

1. First of all, determine the place where you need to break the duct tape.
   
   
   
   
2. Then fold the tape in the same place so that the fold line passes where the tape needs to be broken.
   
   
   
   
3. The fold itself should be about one centimeter. Then iron the fold with your fingers (or better with your nails), so that both sides of the tape stick together as tightly as possible. This step is most important, because if you do not smooth well, the scotch will break badly.
   
   
   
   
4. It remains only to pull sharply - and the scotch will break along the line of the fold. And each time this focus will only get better.
   
   
   
   

Try this method and do not forget to write in the comments, whether it was possible to do everything the first time. We hope that this interesting trick will be useful to you.