In reply to Post #30
The torch light needs to come from close to your eyes as the reflection is normally back to the light source. At close range it may make all the difference, at longer range I think it's not as tight a field of reflection.
I've used 3M solas tape and the stuff is crazy reflective, with dim light you'll see it easily at 150 yards
The torch light needs to come from close to your eyes as the reflection is normally back to the light source. At close range it may make all the difference, at longer range I think it's not as tight a field of reflection.
I've used 3M solas tape and the stuff is crazy reflective, with dim light you'll see it easily at 150 yards
In reply to Post #31
Good explanation. Thank you
Good explanation. Thank you
In reply to Post #32
its brilliant stuff I used to use it for coming back in and also on my marker poles
its brilliant stuff I used to use it for coming back in and also on my marker poles
Solas tape as used in the maritime industry is the best you can get, I started using it after watching the helicopters landing at work on a night about 20 years ago, maybe longer, and all obstacles such as fencing and poles had a strip of it on and it would all light up like a beacon soon as the landing lights shone on it. With Solas, you do not even have to be close to the light source, being off on a big tangent and you will still see it.
I apply it to virtually anything such as my indicators which get a quarter inch strip of it on and its handy on those nights you look out the bivvy and for some reason cannot see the isotopes, a quick flash of a light and you soon spot the indicators. Once on, its on for good till you peel it off and its reflectivity never diminishes. Things like baiting needles, forceps, scissors get a strip around the handle and/or a strip of hi viz red tape so that I can easily spot them if I lose them in the day or night. In fact, even the indicators get a couple of strips of Hi Viz tape to make them stand out in the daytime.
The baitboat even gets both types of tape on all sides and top so that if anything ever goes wrong and the "lights go out" on a night and possibly the motors die, a quick flash of a light and it soon "lights" up to help you spot it and recover it or to steer it to the bank. Fortunetly its never happened apart from one day when I had left the boat to make its own way back to the bank, and it never did, when I remembered it I could not see it, but when I climbed up a tree, straight away I spotted the hi viz red tape on the top off the boat stuck in the bankside reeds about 20 yards away. Without that tape on, I may never have spotted it.
I apply it to virtually anything such as my indicators which get a quarter inch strip of it on and its handy on those nights you look out the bivvy and for some reason cannot see the isotopes, a quick flash of a light and you soon spot the indicators. Once on, its on for good till you peel it off and its reflectivity never diminishes. Things like baiting needles, forceps, scissors get a strip around the handle and/or a strip of hi viz red tape so that I can easily spot them if I lose them in the day or night. In fact, even the indicators get a couple of strips of Hi Viz tape to make them stand out in the daytime.
The baitboat even gets both types of tape on all sides and top so that if anything ever goes wrong and the "lights go out" on a night and possibly the motors die, a quick flash of a light and it soon "lights" up to help you spot it and recover it or to steer it to the bank. Fortunetly its never happened apart from one day when I had left the boat to make its own way back to the bank, and it never did, when I remembered it I could not see it, but when I climbed up a tree, straight away I spotted the hi viz red tape on the top off the boat stuck in the bankside reeds about 20 yards away. Without that tape on, I may never have spotted it.
In reply to Post #35
That looks the same as mine and same pic as on 3M website
https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/sgbgpsd1400s/
That looks the same as mine and same pic as on 3M website
https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/sgbgpsd1400s/
In reply to Post #35
>>>>Do you mean this stuff?<<<<
That's the stuff, I usually buy mine from a ships chandlers nearby or off Ebay. A little bit goes a long way when you start cutting it up. A metre is a lot and will do a lot of jobs.
>>>>Do you mean this stuff?<<<<
That's the stuff, I usually buy mine from a ships chandlers nearby or off Ebay. A little bit goes a long way when you start cutting it up. A metre is a lot and will do a lot of jobs.
OK is NOT like the reflective tape however I bought some few years ago and its really good I have put it on stuff thats I want to find in the bivvy in the dark and it really does glow its called Luminous Tape 
LINKY POO 
LINKY POO
In reply to Post #37
Just ordered from my previous link 50mm x1m £3.10 delivered, bargain.
I also got 25mmx1m of DG980 that was delivered yesterday so I've got enough to last a very long time
Just ordered from my previous link 50mm x1m £3.10 delivered, bargain.
I also got 25mmx1m of DG980 that was delivered yesterday so I've got enough to last a very long time
In reply to Post #38
For luminous things, I use luminous beads for fishing or preferably luminous sweetcorn or boilies as they glow all night, luminous beads do not glow for long. I just thread them on a thin piece of paracord etc and then attach to zip pullers etc.
One of the best things I have found a couple of years back to help find things in the bivvy is Hi Viz paint from ASDA in the stationary section, it comes in 150ml bottles in yellow, orange and red and very cheap, mine was less than £5 for all 3 colours in a set. Paint it onto something and then cover it with clear shrink tube as the paint flakes off eventually on plastics and metals. Then get a ultraviolet torch off EBAY (I use them to charge luminous corn, boilies, compasses etc) and when you shine it in the bivvy, anything that has the Hi Viz paint on glows far brighter than any reflective tape. I think places like the "Works" sells it now.
Another thing I do is use a luminous paint called "AURORA", and it gets painted onto things over a base coat of matt white and if possible clear shrinktube over the top. I usually use it when I service compass's etc but it also ends up on bits of tackle. Homemade indicators made from hollow acrylic tubing and tapped with a 2BA thread is ideal . Just paint the inside of the tubing and then just charge them up with the UV torch and they will glow all night like an isotope.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paint-Aurora-Bright-Non-Toxic-SpaceBeams/dp/B018GEJ3LI?th=1
For luminous things, I use luminous beads for fishing or preferably luminous sweetcorn or boilies as they glow all night, luminous beads do not glow for long. I just thread them on a thin piece of paracord etc and then attach to zip pullers etc.
One of the best things I have found a couple of years back to help find things in the bivvy is Hi Viz paint from ASDA in the stationary section, it comes in 150ml bottles in yellow, orange and red and very cheap, mine was less than £5 for all 3 colours in a set. Paint it onto something and then cover it with clear shrink tube as the paint flakes off eventually on plastics and metals. Then get a ultraviolet torch off EBAY (I use them to charge luminous corn, boilies, compasses etc) and when you shine it in the bivvy, anything that has the Hi Viz paint on glows far brighter than any reflective tape. I think places like the "Works" sells it now.
Another thing I do is use a luminous paint called "AURORA", and it gets painted onto things over a base coat of matt white and if possible clear shrinktube over the top. I usually use it when I service compass's etc but it also ends up on bits of tackle. Homemade indicators made from hollow acrylic tubing and tapped with a 2BA thread is ideal . Just paint the inside of the tubing and then just charge them up with the UV torch and they will glow all night like an isotope.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Paint-Aurora-Bright-Non-Toxic-SpaceBeams/dp/B018GEJ3LI?th=1
In reply to Post #36
Thats the tape i use its very good, my far bank markers are made from orange pike drifter vanes with 1 thick band down the middle of one, two slightly thinner bands on second and 3 bands on the third to make it even easier at a glance to see which spot i want
Thats the tape i use its very good, my far bank markers are made from orange pike drifter vanes with 1 thick band down the middle of one, two slightly thinner bands on second and 3 bands on the third to make it even easier at a glance to see which spot i want