Mr. Hardy had a comment about always checking a film before projecting ... I wonder, do all of you do this? I tend to fix the faults as they appear (if the picture starts jumping, I replace the splice)
I know I am a bit lazy at this, but to now, I luckily haven't experienced anything that damaged my projector or film. I have had bad splices with sticky tape, with some paperlike tape and even some clay looking stuff. All replaced of course. I've heard about staples in 35mm prints, that's a reason to check through it before projecting, I agree. Scares me a little, but not having proper equipment (a poor manual rewinder which takes an hour to spool through ... exaggerating a bit, but you get the drift)
Looking forward to hear if you are lazy (and dares say so) or careful :-) I know David's answer ;-)