Lapping takes out the "Talley Pinch" and other stresses from wonky receiver tops. I can't fathom adding electrical tape to the inside of an already overly tight ring as one mentioned earlier in this thread. That's just adding additional stress.
Brad, Does adding tape to properly tightened/torqued rings induce additional stress to the scope or rings?
I doubt it's helpful... it is pretty thick. It certainly won't affect steel rings, but those additional pressures are going to go somewhere, and aluminum will be the first to absorb those pressures, either a scope tube, the aluminum rings themselves, or both. That's why since the 1980's I've always used rubber cement or, years back, liquid electrical tape. Either will be thinner and more secure than actual electrical tape.
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
