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Setting Blade for Specific Tape Widths

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How to Use the 3M M3000 Hand Masker | Faster Painting with FrogTape® Precision!

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  • 3M M3000 Hand Masker 3M
  • 1-inch Masking Tape Scotch (3M)
  • 1.5-inch Masking Tape Scotch (3M)

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here. Rotate it and it just comes right off. Pretty simple. So, that's kind of how sharp it is. So, I'll line it up cuz I'm using, you know, 1 in tape. So, I'm going to line it it, get my inch tape on. You can see how it lines up now with the inch tape and cuts. But what happens if I now if I put 2 in tape or inch and a half tape on cuz my blade is set, you know, for inch tape, it'll tear inch tape perfect every time. But what happens? So you'll swap it out with inch. And this is why we set our blades for inch and a half and we never change them. And and what happens is if you don't get accustomed to changing the blades, see how it just randomly cut it? If you don't get accustomed to changing the blades all the time, you end up doing that because you forget, you know, um how to change a blade. Literally, I haven't changed the blade. I did one for a video not that long ago, but I've changed, you know, the last time I changed a blade was probably 20 years ago. So, instead of having it set for um for inch for, you know, 1 in tape, I'm going to set it for inch and a half. Now, it'll cut inch and a half and it'll cut 1 in. And typically on our masters, we're only running inch tape at all times. I rare I it's very rare that I ever put inch and a half tape on there. So now you can see it's cutting both

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