Copper Foil Tape (1" x 66ft), Double Sided Conductive Adhesive, for Guitar Muffling, EMI Shielding, Crafts, Motor Coils, Grounding.

I tried a small roll of copper tape years ago, and it worked pretty well. I could not find any this year locally so ordered through Amazon. I wanted a large roll that was a wider height, so this roll at 2"x66' seemed like a great deal. I was pleased with the packaging and the quality of the copper tape. I started out by wrapping a ring around the base of each of my young fruit trees. Every spring I find snails all the way up high, eating young leaves and blossoms. Drives me crazy.I also made recycled cottage cheese or yogurt rings to put around my baby squash plants and tender flowers that usually get eaten up by snails, even when I've spread Sluggo around each one. My baby plants have NO eaten leaves so far ( going on 2 weeks now) and my 8 fruit trees have no snails on the young branches so far and I have checked daily in the mornings. Is this tape easy to use? I would have to say no. The copper itself is very thin and hard to work with, as you can see in my middle picture. It wants to crimp and never lays smooth for me. But I do not care, since it is for outside in the garden and no one is really looking at it closely. I will warn you to ONLY peel off about 1 " at a time, since the backing is terrific to peel, but the copper is a royal pain. I've gotten really good at making my rings to put around my little treasured garden veggies ( I cut a slit through the plastic ring) to make it easier to place around the baby plant. I've been cutting the tape in half for each ring, since I do not need to use the whole 2" tape. So I get two copper taped rings in one, so to speak. I am extremely pleased with my results so far. No snails on my pear or two cherry trees so far, that have had them every spring for 4 years now. My next attempt will be to put a copper ring around the top of several new container pots, to see if I can keep snails from getting down to dirt level inside. This tape is just great for my gardening needs, but takes some patience thats for sure. And remember NOT to peel all the backing off all at once or you may just go a bit crazy or scream at your own stupidity. Neat stuff. Great product, great price.

Your browser does not support HTML5 video.  My nemesis in life are slugs… they eat my wonderful organic herbs in my garden. I decided to make a copper electric barrier on my raised planter bed and some of my pots. This is powered by a 9 volt battery and two strips of this copper tape that either goes around the pot or around each leg of the raised bed. Guess what? This stuff is great… no more slugs. This is inexpensive and very easy to build and set up on raised beds or pots. This is a safe and effective slug deterrent. I would buy this tape again for sure for additional slug barriers.I did test the tape with a volt meter on both the front side and back side (which has the adhesive.) The back adhesive does not conduct well on light contact. However, I can get conduction on the back if I push the volt meter probe with pressure against the tape which my guess is pushing the probe through the thin layer of adhesive material so it makes contact with the copper. It also conducts fine if one firmly pushes the tape against itself on a front to back setup.Pros:Works as expectedGreat valueSlugs hate this stuff!! Yes!!Cons:Handling, curls up when one pulls the backing offThin and can rip easilyBack side adhesive has low conduction with light touch, needs pressure to conduct

Does not work as a slug repellent. We live on the first floor of an apartment and the slugs have been crawling by the masses onto our small porch since we moved here 4 years ago. They climb up our metal bistro table into our cat food and water bowl. They climb the walls along the windows and onto the ceiling. I wanted a humane way to deal with them and had high hopes for this product. We laid 2” of tape along the edge of our patio where it meets the grass and another 2” on the side walls. Last night we saw 2 slugs one baby eating cat food and the second guy was a long and fat one - shudders. Then we saw a small army of slugs slowly encroaching and moving through the grass heading straight for our porch. We watched as one slug started to go across the tape and recoiled and went back onto the grass but kept trying to cross it. Two hours later we checked our porch and there were 10 slugs chilling out like they had no where better to be. I saw someone hook up a 9 volt battery and perhaps that would be more effective but for now will be returning this product.

This tape is good, it is a bit hard to handle being so thin and so sticky. I cut strips and taped them to thin foam sheets to put around the stalks of my plants. I did play around with a slug on some. They don't seem to care for it much, but they will cross it (though this slug was probably agitated as I'd moved it around for a while). It funny--the slug after being on the copper for a few minutes actually started to turn green. I did find a slug one morning sort of snuggled up against the tape (he was green) and was pretty sluggish.I used beer traps as my main defense, the copper strips were for backup. Once the cups and strips were in the pots, I have not seen a slug actually on a plant. In the dirt, yes, and plenty of slug corpses in the cups. With both these countermeasures in place, I don't worry about slugs anymore. Now, the darned grasshoppers and beetles at them.

Simple to use- saved me so much hassle- Had an outdoor umbrella that was lit with LEDS with a solar charger. worked fine for three years and needed new battery's. Upon disassembly I found the battery's were spot welded to the conductor strips and had to be removed with a small cutting wheel (DREMEL) I could not believe I found the battery's on AMAZON- 3.7 volts with the proper amp rating The replacement's were Li-ion and I did not want to try soldering them. Again Amazon came thru with a conductive copper tape!! so simple I don't think I will ever solder again! HA Taped the wires on and reassembled the solar unit and VIOLA LED light "on" Thanks Amazon!!!