Dollhouse Electrical Copper Tape

The original dollhouse wiring page with many useful demos and links to pages that explain the basics of power transformers and how many lights can i run.

Dollhouse electrical copper tape. Skare embarked on developing a tape containing two parallel copper foils. Press the wall plug outlet pins up to your tapewire do not push at this stage and the light will light up. Each prong goes into one color of the tape. Tape wire uses thin copper tape with adhesive backing to carry the electricity around the house in a ring.

By early 1976 the product had been engineered and manufactured and cir kit concepts was launched. The cir kit concepts name is also embossed on the natural copper foil to identify it as the one and only cir kit concepts tapewire product. Repair an et250 wired turntable. Dollhouse wiring hybrid wiring combining round wire with tape wire dollhouse tape wire uses thin copper tape with adhesive backing to carry the electricity around the house in a ring.

The main body of the tape is 5 8 wide with a total thickness of approximately 005. I am using tape wiring for the first time. Dollhouse workshop wiring page. The tape can be double and plastic coated or single and uncoated must be coated with shellac or varnish to protect it from corroding in contact with wallpaper pastes or paints.

The wall plug outlet works almost exactly like the junction splice does. The mylar tape is treated for either painting or papering. One track to the attic is fine but the line going to the left is not working. Hi elaine just came across your post.

A tape run made today will appear as straight and true in a year as the day it was laid. The double conductor copper tape is made of two runs of flat copper tape uniformly spaced on transparent mylar tape. See also painting over tapewire for a head to head comparison of spackle and liner paper for covering tapewire when. This method of miniature dollhouse wiring became an immediate sensation and contributed greatly to the miniatures boom of the 80 s and 90 s.

With this in mind mr. Both types have adhesive across the entire width of the tape as well as a protective paper that peels off for installation.