Seam Sealing Tape T-2000X – Hot Melt 3-Layer Waterproof – Iron On

Ordered to replace the seam tape on a Palm whitewater cag and Peak UK trousers. This stuff is excellent, the fabric backing and adhesion is superb. It takes a couple of seconds practice to get your iron to the right temp - circa Nylons level. When you do get the adhesive 'flowing' it forms a fantastic bond to the underlying material. Take your time with it, leave the iron over the tape for the full 10 seconds and you'll have watertight seams again. Hint #1 if you want to keep your iron and the adhesive separate, cut a 3cm strip of grease-proof paper and stick that over the tape to stop the adhesive making the iron sticky. Hint #2 when doing a longer strip, position the first couple of cm and 'dab' the iron on to just that point, then you can work away from a fixed point keeping the tape aligned over the seam.

I used this on a 30 (yes 30!) year old three layer Goretex Sprayway mountain shell jacket where the original seam taping across the collar had lifted and edges of original taping had lifted in places. Very successful. It’s a bit of a slow fiddly job and patience needed but results very good indeed.Tip - get a foot long piece of 2”x1” wood to put on the ironing board under garment and the length of seam being repaired. You can adjust position of garment and wood strip as you go.This lifts the seam above the rest of the garment giving you a clear run with the iron, a hard base to iron on and helps avoid touching the rest of the garment with the iron. I set the iron a little over the two dot medium heat setting which wororked for me.You can cut the new seam tape to make a narrower width if required. Cut its length to a bit more than the length of seam being repaired. You can trim later if it’s a bit too long.You’ll find that you miss little bits with the iron so inspect the repaired areas carefully especially edges and go over any unstuck edges carefully with the edge of the iron.In places Where the original seam tape was only lifting slightly at edges I cut the new taoe into narrower strips, about 1cm wide, and used these just to seal over the edges of the original tape.The jacket is now good for another 30 years?! So the £15 was well spent to get what is now equivalent to a £300 jacket fit for purpose again. An amateur repair but this tape enables results probably not far off a more costly professional repair.

I ordered this tape in order to replace the taped seams on a lightweight pair of over-trousers.There was very nearly enough tape for this purpose - I was surprised how the total seam length added up, so a couple more inches would have been good, but it didn't really matter.I found it best to use 6 to 8 inch sections of tape (easy to iron on), and to overlap a little bit at the joins.I used a medium-to-hot dry iron, and found the new tape very easy to put on.It seemed to stick straight away, and the over-trousers feel a lot better as a result of the repair.It was a much quicker job than I had imagined.I would recommend this product.

Excellent quality tape, was able to a good repair on a membrane waterproof jacket (Mountain Hardwear DryQ), using roughly this method: http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/hill-skills/how-to-repair-torn-waterproofs/6509.html. The images attached show an inner and outer patch applied to a tear in a pocket. Not obvious from photos but a layer in the tape melts and welds to the fabric of jacket. Use a cork matt to keep the repair area flat and test on some synthetic material first to get the iron temperature correct. Needs to be hot enough so that you can see molten glue at the edge of patch, but not hot enough to melt a nylon ribbon. Iron through baking paper to limit the temperature change.

I was initially impressed with this but the strips soon began to part from the jacket. I thought this might be because the iron wasn’t hot enough and tried again but once heated, each attempt is weaker. I then figured I’d order another batch to seal the edges of the first back into place. This time I used an even hotter setting but after one wear the tape is coming loose again! It simply doesn’t stick to some materials and this should really be communicated to the customer in the description. I now have to buy a clear sealant tape to secure the edges of the unstuck first and second attempts with the grey tapes back to the jacket. At £15 per attempt and about to try for the third time this is a joke! If you have any kind of rubberised/PU backing on your waterproof just don’t bother with this product, it only works on untreated fabric.

I bought this to repair the damaged (10 years old) seam sealing tape at my Dynesse Gore Tex motorbike jacket and trousers . The quality of the product is very good. I made the repair twice.The 1st time I applied it using the iron at a medium temperature by pressing it for about 5 sec but it didn't stick well. The 2nd time I applied it using the iron at a medium to high temperature (at the point where the iron starts to steam) by pressing it for 10 seconds until a little amount of the glue showed at the edges of the tape. By doing this, tape stuck very well and no water passed through during a rainy day I tested it.Unfortunately, because of the material feeling of the Gore Tex fabric (it has a silicon feel at touching) and the position of the fixed area ( inside of the arm where it folds) the tape after 10 days of everyday use, started to unstick lightly at specific areas, without loosing its waterproof abilities. Maybe it unstuck only at the edges.In my opinion, if the repair was at an another area of the jacket that doesn't fold all the time, it would probably had been stuck better, because at the Gore tex trousers it stuck very strong and until now it has no problem.Here and some photos of the repair. 1st photo is from the jacket arm, 2nd is from the trousers and the 3rd is from jacket after several days.So I will surely try again until I succeed the better result.I 'll give to this product a rate of 5 stars ( I was thinking to give 4), only because I think that maybe I didn't make a proper application.