We shot this video to see how long it would take to seal the tops and bottoms of four cartons using plastic packaging tape and a handheld tape gun. It became very obvious pretty quickly how frustrating and time consuming it can be to use plastic tape. The tape gets tangled and breaks several times. The end result is four boxes that look very messy and which took over four minutes to close.
You aren't using the tape gun correctly. You run the roller in the gun along the surface you're taping, rather than your technique of pulling out tape in mid-air before trying to smooth down and tidy up the resulting mess.
The correct technique is in bestmovingstore's video "How to Properly Tape a Cardboard Box".
djwood2 8 months ago