You're right, there's definitely no "detaching", I'm having to cut it off, as close to the tape as possible so I lose as little of the material as possible. Luckily, I only used a 1/4" strip (on each side) to attach the beaks, so I'm only losing 1/8" of the one I have to cut off (half the width of the quarter inch strip).
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