Installation and First Start-Up
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7.2.2
Handling
In order to avoid tension in the tape, it must not be stretched, compressed or twisted.
It should be stored with the magnetized plastic tape to the outside, the minimum bending radius must be noted
here
Figure 6: Handling
7.2.3
Processing hint for the gluing of magnetic tapes
Surface-Preparation: In order to guarantee optimal adhesion, all antiadhesive contamination (e.g. oil, grease,
dust, separating agents) has to be removed using solvents with residue-free evaporation.
Suitable agents are ketones or alcohols. Typical solvents for cleaning the surface are a 50/50 isopropyl alco-
hol/water mixture or heptane. Those agents are offered by Loctite and 3M among others as surface cleaners.
When using solvents, always observe the manufacturer instructions! If the surface is copper, brass etc., it should
be sealed to avoid oxidation.
Contact-Pressure: The strength of the adhesion is directly dependent on the contact the adhesive can form with
the surface. Therefore it is important to use as much pressure as possible when gluing the tape, possibly by us-
ing aids such as draw rolls. The optimum contact pressure is 4…5 kg/cm
2
).
Gluing temperature: The optimal gluing temperature is b 21 ° C and 38 ° C. Avoid colder sticking
surfaces than + 10 °C, because in this case the adhesive becomes too hard and perhaps a sufficient immediate
adhesion is hardly to achieve. After proper sticking, the stability of the connection is ensured also when the tem-
perature is below zero. The final tackiness of a sticking is from experience reached after approximately 72 hours
(at + 21 °C). For gluing use only the supplied adhesive tape.
Magnetized
Plastic tape
Steel tape
