The picture given is not what is sent. This pic is of the original construction of the tape dispenser. The new dispenser has not lasted. It gets jammed before all tape glue is used. Had to discard and start with a new one. The glue works well that is why I use it.
Each year I have approximately 20 Linear Feet (lf.) of Business Check Register - Column Header labels to affix to my "Safeguard Business Systems" Registers. Having used the last of a competitors glue tape I trooped to my local Staples (Napa CA) and purchased your 2-Pack. Around the 18 lf. mark on the first applicator the used tape slipped off the pickup roll bound up on it and became useless. Picked up the second applicator and begun applying the glue only to have the tape bind (at approximately 14”) in such a way (unknown to me) as to feed an excess out of the front of the applicator and stop the tape feed. With no access to wind up the excess tape that applicator also became useless. I returned the 2-Pack to the Napa Store and exchanged it for another Staples 2-pack with which I finished my annual “glue task”. My impression is that the applicator design (like yours and others I have used) is good but that the tolerances of the internal feed mechanism needs too be revisited.
I got these to use for my son's school science project. They work ok. One stopped rolling and the strip broke after gluing 3 letters. Very hard to use not like the white out.
first half of role came off very well. But the second half is up in the case and when it is pressed down to glue a strip of paper have to manually move the glue strip to that area to adhere. Hard to explain.