Steelbook Spine Removal Tutorial Video!

[(W)KRP]

All for the love of SteelBooks. Super video. Editing was perfect. Just get the lighting straightened out (re-orient your location to the window or use directed light). The hairdryer works much quicker than I expected. I've got some converted jumbos that need spines. I'll look for that thin double-stick tape. The standard stuff is 2-3x too thick.

[cudzndrips]

Originally Posted by (W)KRP

All for the love of SteelBooks. Super video. Editing was perfect. Just get the lighting straightened out (re-orient your location to the window or use directed light). The hairdryer works much quicker than I expected. I've got some converted jumbos that need spines. I'll look for that thin double-stick tape. The standard stuff is 2-3x too thick.

Here's the link for the double-sided tape which is actually 6mm wide and not 5 as I state in the video.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stix2-Double...9454592&sr=8-3

[cheerup38]

Originally Posted by cudzndrips

Here's the link for the double-sided tape which is actually 6mm wide and not 5 as I state in the video.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stix2-Double...9454592&sr=8-3

Its bad enough some of us gotta import the steelies.....now tape! lol

[bgmat58]

Any way you can point us in the direction of some tape on AMZ US which will work or is the same size?

Originally Posted by cudzndrips

Here's the link for the double-sided tape which is actually 6mm wide and not 5 as I state in the video.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stix2-Double...9454592&sr=8-3

[Blu-Boy in BKK]

That tape is the bomb. I was using 3M tape, however I have noticed that that starts to turn yellowish and opaque after a while. This stuff is seriously clear.
My newly renovated 2 disc play editions of Transformers, Forrest Gump looks spectacular as do my Looper, I Am Legend and Snow White & The Huntsman.
As soon as I acquire some more 2 Disc inserts I will be converting my Play.com Iron Man and Iron Man 2.

[wjasoncul]

Originally Posted by bgmat58

Any way you can point us in the direction of some tape on AMZ US which will work or is the same size?

What about something like this?

(Not saying this is a comparative thing, but it looks like it)

[cudzndrips]

Yeah that looks pretty much the same as the tape i use, the red effect is just the top coating.

[kevindublin]

Excellent video.

I'm inspired to have a go at it myself now!

[Blu-Boy in BKK]

I've been converting Steelbooks for about 4 1/2 years now (one of the first, if not the first) and this tape is the best thing to happen for us converters. Even the best 3M tape is paper based so it will always be opaque, and as I said previously after a while it turns a nasty Yellow, your blue artwork now looks green, reds now orange. Plus it also breaks up and looses tackiness after a while at room temperature. I intend to stock up one this just in case. Only problem is now I have to redo all my previous conversions, that's about 150, including all the frame changes I did (3 disc to 2 disc etc)