COPPER FOIL SPINNING REEL
The Copper Foil Spinning Reel allows you to store two rolls of foil between 3 disks. You can label the disks with a Sharpie so you know what tape is where. For example, you could have one reel filled with a roll of 7/32" black backed foil and another roll of 3/16" black backed foil.
You could also have one reel filled with 7/32" black backed foil and another roll of 7/32" silver backed foil. However you want to keep your foil - by color or by size. What the heck you can mix them all up and declare your collection to be eclectic! Who needs a lesson in right brain - left brain characteristics?
The beauty of the reel is that when you set it down on the nylon screw head and slowly pull on the foil, the reel will just sit wherever you put it and spin and feed out foil on demand without twisting.
This is not a commercial for the Glastar hand foiler, but if you have one, you'll find that if you put your foil in one of our Spinning Reels, you'll solve your problems of the foiler jamming because the tape got all twisted. When we were running our retail operation we sold a lot of hand foiler/spinning reel combos. The foiler does work well as long as the foil doesn't get twisted.
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Photo 1 - Shows a roll of copper foil tape inserted onto disk 1 with the locater tabs sticking up and the nylon bolt already inserted through the center hole in the disk.
Photo 2 - Shows disk 2 pushed down over the nylon bolt with the locater tabs sticking up and a second roll of foil centered on disk 2.
Photo 3 - Shows disk 3 pushed down over the nylon bolt with the locater tabs down and the nylon nut threaded down to the top of the disk. The ends of the rolls of tape are stuck to the outside faces of disks 1 and 3 and the faces are labeled with the contents.
Photo 4 - Shows one roll of tape ready to be used and the Spinning Reel in position to feed the foil as needed. You can't tell from the picture but as the Spinning Reel turns, it doesn't move around. It just sits in one place.
When the Copper Foil Spinning Reel is loaded, you can easily store it in the zip lock bag in which it was shipped.