So I bought a packing tape dispenser (“gun”) for the 4 inch wide clear tape over the box labels, only to find the frame projected beyond the rubber roller on one side:
That steel flange prevented the roller from making firm contact with the box and pressing the tape into place. I’d never seen such a thing on any of the other tape guns I’d used, including a similar one (for 2 inch tape) on loan from the good folks at archive.org:
Well, even with the shop in disarray, I can fix that:
Filing that bump down definitely improved my disposition over the next few hundred boxes …
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 