Drew was enthusiastic and diligent, so soon the company assigned him to work in automotive shops and garages to monitor testing of their new sandpaper brand Wetordry. It didn’t take long before Drew noticed, that when a car was painted in two colours, the border line between them was almost never even. Willing to protect the painted section, workers would use a special paper to cover it, but when removed after painting, the paper went off together with the paint and it took a long time to correct defects.
Eager to solve the issue, Drew bought a tape 5 cm wide with adhesive layer along the edges. Workers gave it a try, but because adhesive layer was only at the edges, middle part of the strip soaked in paint and eventually cringed.
Next five years Drew never stopped improving adhesive tape, constantly searching for best adhesive to use, perfect backing material etc. He experimented with everything from vegetable oil to natural tree gums. They say Drew was using so much cellophane daily that the waste had to be picked up by a truck at the end of the day.
