I have been on the hunt for literally years.
My goal: A “reverse” post-it board - the board is sticky, not the paper, so you can stick anything on it. So I need something that will give good coverage over a large surface, since I want to spread it all over the board. This likely means a spray or liquid, but I want to hear about anything that works.
What I do NOT want:
Post-it brand “pre-made” post-it boards: way too expensive and not the size I want. And I mean WAY too expensive.
Temporarily repositionable: I have tried quite a number of products that laid claim to being repositionable. They weren’t. They just took a longer time to become permanent: you could reposition for maybe an hour or two, possibly several hours. But within 24 hours or 48 at the outside… dry and non-sticky.
I did in fact find EXACTLY the product that did EXACTLY what I wanted: Wackytac Liquid Sticky Note Adhesive by EK Success, it had exactly the right amount of “tack” (stickiness… I’ve learned a lot about the terminology over the years, since I started my quest with double-sided tape, which, in order to work as I would like, needs to be pretty high-tack on one side and very low-tack on the other, which is almost impossible to find.) and it stays “tacky” for months, even years I guess, since I still have things that I originally made with it at least two years ago that are actually still somewhat tacky. This product was really ideal, because the price was very reasonable and the product covered a lot of territory.
It also gets kinda messy because it does work, so over time various bits and pieces of hair and fluff and dust accumulate on it. The best way to clean it is to use masking tape, but then it needs to be freshened up. So in addition to making new ones for new reasons all the time, I also need to have a supply to keep older ones fresh.
But of course, as I could have predicted, about five minutes after I discovered it, it stopped being manufactured. And I dont’ understand why, since it was exactly right. I keep looking and hoping that it will magically reappear, but every link to it is dead or old or says “out of stock”.
E-how gives a recipe to make your own that is worthless.
I’ve tried 3-M Scotch respositionable spray - nope.
Elmer’s mounting spray. Nope.
ELmers sticks, nope.
I’ve tried a bunch of lesser things, most of which are very expensive because they come in tiny containers and don’t go very far.
Most recently I’m looking at Slice in a tube and wondering if anyone can tell me if it is REALLY repositionable?
And if by chance anyone has a source for old stock of the Wackytac liquid…please let me know!