Ynot Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 It always amazes me that there's not more fuss from the 'feministas' about stuff like this! Pink tools for ladies sorta suggests a bit of n insult in some ways, though I have to say that my 18-yr old niece requested (and got) a pink toolkit (mainly for her stage work...) for Christmas a couple of years back!! There are a couple of sites capitalising on the genre though... Little Pink ToolboxLittle Pink ToolkitChick's Pink Toolkit the last one, however, seems to be the only one with pink PVC tape included...I'm seldom impressed with the tools in these gimmicky sets, however, as they are on the whole just that - gimmicks. There are even Pink Toolbags & Belts.......! One question, though.....Apart from being safe in the knowledge that it's unlikely EVER to get pinched, why on EARTH would you want pink leccy tape.....????!! :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Hampson Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 One question, though.....Apart from being safe in the knowledge that it's unlikely EVER to get pinched, why on EARTH would you want pink leccy tape.....????!! ;) In my case I think it stems from a conversation on stage regarding the similarity of our stage to an airport with all of the LX tape markings on a particular show, we had just been asked to mark the position of 'yet another' item in a different colour and had run out of colours to use, and some bright spark mentioned that we hadn't used pink yet... that then started the hunt for new Lx colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 I think I've told this story before but I mark all my tools with pink paint/gaffa and it seems to be a sure fire way of hanging onto them. I once got an email from a venue just outside Venice about two years after I last visited saying they found a lump hammer with pink paint on it and thought it might be mine, now I doubt you'd get that with any other colour! Paint also reduces the ebay/pawn-shop value of power tools sufficiently that I'm not as bothered about keeping them chained up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_m Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 and some bright spark mentioned that we hadn't used pink yet... that then started the hunt for new Lx colours. Earth tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Hampson Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 and some bright spark mentioned that we hadn't used pink yet... that then started the hunt for new Lx colours. Earth tape? Oh yes, and black, blue, brown, red, grey, yellow, green, white, and purple, oh and orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gherriott Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 ** laughs out loud **, can't think which show that was! Not as bad as 'Spirit'...there was no such thing as a blackout with the amount of glowtape on that stage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jude Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 One question, though.....Apart from being safe in the knowledge that it's unlikely EVER to get pinched, why on EARTH would you want pink leccy tape.....????!! :) You try keeping hold of pink tape in a girls' School! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 OK, topic resurrection time! The link that Ike posted earlier under "Found some!" no longer lists pink as a colour option. Oh, and they also want to try to charge £1.46 for a roll of sparky tape!! :( :( So - anyone know where I can get hold of some pink electrical tape? Been having the "what colour shall we use as this year's PAT-test tape?" debate, and pink is the favourite if we can find some ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I was thinking that if anyone was likely to supply it, it would be LeMark. But they don't seem to do it. However, they do do pink gaffer tape, in custom widths... I just bought some purple pvc tape from CPC.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 We've already got purple! And that was the PAT-test colour three (or was it four?) years ago. Ah well, it doesn't look like we'll be having pink. Pity, really, I was quite looking forward to that! I guess we'll just have to go back around the bog-standard colours again. How dull! :( The problem is, there are some colours that we can't use - white, red, orange and blue are already used on bits of equipment for various identification purposes. Oh, and grey was last year's colour. So that limits our choices a bit - hence the search for a 'different' colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.elsbury Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Gareth, how about green/yellow striped "earth" tape? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gareth Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Green/yellow is used to aid rapid identification of the wide-angle variation of our SL zooms! FOrgot about that one ...:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_cooper Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Age old thread I know, but I had a need for some and found This at Fancy Tapes. Not Cheap however! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james jag Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 how strange is this, I was just looking for pink lx tape last week but could not find any, asked le mark they can have it made, but as it was from marking mains cables I just bought some 48 rolls 25mm wide neon pink gaffa from TMB, look lovely, it means you will find you cable in the back of some one else van nice and quick, but just dont use pink as this is now my colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cedd Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 ZigZag lighting in Leeds sell some funny coloured LX tape. I believe Pink is one of them, as is purple. They come in packs of 8 for about 8 quid. The website is quite dated, and is currently down, but their phone number is 0113 250 6980. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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