Product Overview & Core Features

• Description: Resilient gasket tapes custom manufactured to a variety of configurations.
• Construction: Formed by wrapping heat-resistant cores with specially treated cover materials.
• Function: Useful gasket for sealing flanges or for use where low bolt force is applied.
• Application: Ideally suited for sealing flanges with limited bolt force, or warped/uneven mating surfaces where flat tapes are not appropriate.
• Availability: Available in a variety of sizes.

Manufacturing Styles & Special Coatings
Weave/Knit Styles

Knitted Tadpole Tapes:

Made from knitted fiberglass cloth formed over a knit braided fiberglass rope core.

Core can be made of other heat resistant material.

Woven Fiberglass Tadpole Tapes:

Manufactured from a woven fiberglass cloth formed over a dense knit braided fiberglass rope or heat resistant core.

Aluminized Tadpole Tapes

• Use: Sealing oven doors, covers, ducting, expansion joints, burners, and applications requiring conformance to uneven flanges.
• Attachment: Tail/fin section can be attached to metal or refractory surfaces by bolting, metal strapping, or sheet metal screws.
• Unique Feature: Can be welded to refractory surfaces because of its metal mesh cover.
• Options: Both the inside and outside of the tape can be aluminized.

Graphited Fiberglass Tadpole Tapes

• Service: Engineered for high temperature, low pressure services.
• Abrasion: Graphite Coating provides more abrasion resistance.
• Aesthetics: Black color gives a more blended appearance to the unit it is applied to.
• Durability: Graphite Coating is permanent at high temperature.

Adhesive Back Tapes

• Properties: Heat and flame resistant, often made with thermal insulating fiberglass.
• Temperature: Withstand continuous exposure to temperatures of 1000 degree F.
• Common Use: Gasket/seal for access doors and gate valves.
• Ease of Use: Fabricated with an adhesive applied to one side for easy installation.