[exmadscientist]

To be fair I never spent time on the Pole myself (though I did get to ship one piece of Irreplaceable Science Stuff* thataway...) (*Containing punch cards! Real genuine punch cards! ...as shims.), I just spent some time about a decade ago onsite in China with Jeff, where he talked quite a bit about driller's tape and how we didn't have any there in China. I tracked down the stuff myself based on his description, so I'm not surprised if I got the specific manufacturer wrong.

[joshvm]

The 3M stuff certainly looks identical. That said, 361 is only rated down to -54 C and it gets colder than that over winter, maybe Nitto performed better in testing? Honestly I don't think many people could tell you the brand without looking it up, we all call it driller's tape. I used some to attach a solargraph (really, a failed attempt to make a lunargraph) on some railings for most of the winter and it was still there when the sun came up. Can't think of too many things we'd use it for outside though, mostly temporary things or labelling/fixing stuff to poles. The absolute performance probably doesn't matter too much relative to "does it work at -20 to -30 C reliably" (i.e. summer conditions).