Ask Mike: All hail duct tape
Hey Guys,
When it comes to home repairs, I’m not the handiest guy around. But I do have one sure-fire tool that fixes just about any problem I come across. Duct tape. I’ve used duct tape to “fix” cupboards, shelves, and even a refrigerator door (one of my finest hours). Who do I have to thank for this awesome invention?
A search on “duct tape inventor” yielded solid results. My first stop was at a blog from Ace Hardware. “The Helpful Hardware Blog” credits Johnson & Johnson with creating duct tape back in 1930. Interestingly, the tape was initially intended for use in hospitals, and due to its waterproof materials, it was dubbed “Drybak.”
Drybak didn’t become duct tape (and its grey color) until after World War II. Apparently, that’s when air conditioning hit the mainstream. Duct tape (as it soon became known) was used by repairmen to seal off drafty ducts.
Over the years, duct tape has acquired an enviable fan base. There are dozens of sites that list all the different uses one can find for the sticky substance. The Duck Tape Club offers contests for the most creative use of the all-purpose tape. But, if you ask me, that honor has to go folks who choose to put duct tape on warts. Though it hasn’t been proven to help, many feel a little duct tape on those unsightly blemishes will make them disappear.
And what about you? What’s your most creative use of duct tape? I’ve seen car bumpers held up with it, wallets made out of it, and even prom dresses and tuxedos reated from it. Please leave a comment below and share the love.
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You should post some of your duct-tape kludges on the “There, I Fixed It” blog.
I’m ashamed to say that years ago I went to a Halloween party with duct tape over my mouth and a sign around my neck which read, “Perfect Wife”.
I make purses and wallets out of ductape! They r AWESOME
This was funnier the first time I heard it on the Red Green Show! Running out of material?
I had a piece of luggage that I hauled thru 2 years of college out of state. It started to fail me just when I was heading on a trip home, so I broke out the duct tape. The bag survived from NM all the way to NY and I was taking an Amtrak train journey of 3 days! All Hail the Duct tape Gods!
Even better than duct tape is Gaffers’ Tape. It hold better and doesn’t leave a sticky residue or lift paint when you take it off. Ask any roadie or photographer and they will sing its praises.
Not meaning to burst a bubble but duct tape is not recommended for ducts by ari conditioning/heating pros. It gets brittle and then leaks air.
Duct Tape is the Force: It’s light on one side, dark on the other, and it binds the galaxy together.
I have extensive knowledge of the force.
I’ve used it for practicly everything.. I’ve used it make custom boxes along with carboard (with flaps and cubby holes) I’ve used it to temporarily fix leaks in the ceiling.. I pretty much use it without even thinking about it anymore, rather then working out some complicated fix for things, i just put a little duct tape to it.. Like the holder for the water bottle for my rats.. It’s meant to attatch to an actual cage, but I have an aquarium.. A little duct tape to permantly affix the metal holder it coems with, a bit of bending, and voila…
Lol when i was in highschool, they propped our principal standing up on a chair against a wall, duct taped him too it, them moved the chair. The duct tape was strong enough to hold him up against the wall it was hilarious. They put pie in his face lol
I once sealed of a 15 inch gash in the woods with duct tape, I did not need stiches but it was painful. As for repairs, about 90%of my stuff has duct tape used from walls to the ceiling to even a computer monitor
I love duct tape. I use it to fix everything. I also tried the wart thing but it didn’t work.
im just glad to see you have not mis-spelt Duct Tape as “duck” tape as so many ppl do
When I was a kid, I usually making toys using the duct tape and some useless things.
I have made wallets and fireworks and pretty much everything and i love it!!! my favorite site for duct tape is “Duct tape guys” they are kinda hick’is but i like it!
I actually made a handbag out of red duct tape before. Its possible.
I once saw a guy use it on a flat tire. Somehow he wrapped the entire wheel up in the stuff, and it was enough to get him home.
China makes THE WORST DUCT TAPE!!!
In middle school, the rubber sole part of my sneaker fell completely off in the front half, so my foot could stick all the way out!
My dad wrapped it up with duct tape all over to save money on new shoes. It covered the laces and everything, so I just had to squeeze my foot in every morning. Also, the tape wrapped all around, so it made the bottom uneven and kind of hard to walk on. They lasted me that whole year and I got used to the uneven sole, but I got teased a ton. The called me a poor bum! D’=
It wasn’t my fault my dad was such a cheap scrooge!
I think it might have been a little better if the other one matched….
One of those pull tote with wheels broke on me, and it became hard t hope and close. So I permenantly duct taped it open. So instead it became a duct tape tote. My silver tote was envied, and finally went to tote heaven when the handle broke beyond duct tape salvation.
There was a duct tape on the market several years ago called ‘ 300 MPH Tape ‘ and it’s the best I’ve ever seen. NASCAR used it during races to keep the cars on the track. I repaired huge cracks in a plastic trailer bath tub with it and it worked like a miracle. I wish I could find some more.
how old is ask mike guy, what is your biography
Duck tape is actually correct too. As with most things military, items are assigned a series of letters and numbers. The tape created for the marines in WWII was no exception. So the marines gave it a name, duck tape, because it was resistant to water, just like a duck’s feathers. It later became duct tape, rigger’s tape, 100 mph tape, speed tape, gun-tape (Canadian), hurricane tape, and Panzertape (because the Germans consider it as tough as a tank).
The question is, what haven’t i used it on
I own on a ranch so i’ve used it alot.
Holding up fences, keeping gates shut, patching balls(like basketballs), cushioning stuff like mower handles etc
Holding my wheeling truck together lol
I have a roll in all of our vehicles and outbuildings.
it’s my savior around the ranch
This Halloween I made a skirt, vest and hat out of red, white and blue ducttape. The Skirt was a garbage back covered in tape and seamed. The vest was an old shirt. and the hat was a cheap hat that we dovered in duct tape.
My boyfriend is just as enthusiastic about duct tape as you are I’d say lol He is always talking about something else he fixed with his roll of duct tape. And he flipped out one day when he saw an episode of, I think it was myth busters, where they used duct tape to lift an automobile off of the ground by like 20 ft. He was amazed for days. He didn’t think duct tape could get any better before he saw that lol and he was proven wrong.
Ya people now where duct tape as a fashion! So many girls now make duct tape bows! They are so cute! Duct Tape Bows are going all over our local middle school! They look awesome!
I had an old Chevy II (what became a Nova later) in Tucson in 1974. I bought it for $75. The convertible top had been left down for a long time, baking in the sun. When I put it up, the canvas burst to smithereens. I made a new top by wrapping yards of duct tape round and round the frame of the convertible top. I drove my car proudly with my duct tape top until the car failed emissions tests.
About 6 + years back I about totaled my car hitting 2 deer. One rolled over the top of the car and the other slid down the drivers side from front to back. My front left bumper was gone and you could see the battery, and the hood was in shambles and wouldn’t open. As I could not afford my deDUCTible at the time of the accident and still needed to get to college and work I duct taped the car. I made sure I got every hole and any other area that would create a problem, plus I taped the Styrofoam that was inside the bumper back in. Then I used red and clear duct tape to made a headlight so I could still drive at night and not get pulled over. Since I live in the UP eh, I decided to be a smart ass and took a black magic marker and wrote all over the duct tape: “Yooper Band Aid” “I Got Two” “Duct Tape Fixes Everything” I got a lot of laughs from it and even saw a few cars I passed on the road laugh. It’s true what Red Green always said, “Duct tape is a handyman’s favorite tool.”
u know if we concentrate on the small inventions we could have never invented the bigger ones.
The ultimate toolkit:
Duct tape and WD40.
If it moves and it shouldn’t, use Duct tape.
If it doesn’t move and it should, use WD40.
Sorted!
If it moves, but it ain’t s’posed to…duct tape
If it’s s’posed to move but it don’t…WD-40
I used duct tape once to remove a wart. The glue is proven to eliminate the bacteria.
go to: http://thezac.com/ducttape/
I also used it as a lint remover (#99)
and as a mouse/rat trap (#111)
DISCLAIMER: SOME OF THESE ARE MENTALLY SCARRING AND ROFL HILARIOUS.
i first encountered duct tape working at a fan company, ’63 – ’65.
at the time it was green, with a red adhesive.
during that time the adhesive changed from rec to silver-grey.
i presume that the new adhesive didn’t dry out as fast.
(or was cheaper to produce.)
it was some time after that that the tape changed from green to silver.
and y’all should know that if you keep it in a plastic bag, it keeps for years. lots of years.
if you just leave it out, it dries out fairly quickly.
I am a 33 year old woman, and I only have two things in my tool box… WD-40 and duct tape.
If it doesn’t move, but it’s supposed too, I use the WD-40. If it moves but it’s not supposed to, I use the duct tape! Easy as pie! LOL
I found a use for duct tape that does fix something but not what people would expect. My 18-month old daughter would keep taking all her clothes off at nap time so she has been known to wet the bed while sleeping. I take a small strip and put it across the front of her diaper when I put it on. So when I put her down for a mid-afternoon snooze, she might have all but the diaper off.
Duct Tape is like The Force. It has a light side. It has a dark side. It binds the universe together.
I once got caught in a hail storm on a road trip in Texas. My car sustained damage to the trim around the windshield causing it to break and creating a wind-tunnel effect when driving. I stopped in Sweetwater and bought a roll of duct tape and essentially built a new trim for the windshield. I not only made it successfully home to California, but it worked so well that I left it on for a bit before having to spend the few hundred dollars to replace the trim.
My dad believed in duct tape as the cure all. When I got my first apartment I invited my folks to dinner. Dad showed up with a package of ground beef in case dinner went badly, and he also brought a six pack of duct tape as a housewarming present.
As to that misspelling of duct tape as “duck tape” I found out why in a recent visit to the US (I’m Canadian). There is a brand of duct tape called “Duck Tape”.
My mom used it to patch a hole on the side wall of her riding lawn mower tire. It was still holding 2 years later when she traded it off. It also works well to patch holes in a down coat, tho it is not exactly pretty. Uglier yet is using it to repair worn out shoes, making them some what water proof as well, depending on how much tape you use.
Just after the successful moon landing in the early 70′s the Apollo 13 Moon mission had a massive failure and explosion on the way to the moon.
their survival was a miracle of engineering.
Duct Tape saved their lives. Without it three astronauts would have certainly died. Perhaps the greatest real life adventure survival story of the space era
I was in an after school gifted and tallented program as a kid called “Destination Imagination.” One year we did the improv challenge, we had to research all these people and places and the day of the challenge a judge would pick random people and places and events from the list of things we had to research and we had to put together a skit with the chosen researched people and places and events and items from the approved kit. Duct tape was a favorite because it could be shaped to make almost anything we wanted in our skits.
I was on a plane on the way back from a vacation in Spain, we were delayed, the pilot was flirting with the girls in the next plain and leaning with one hand against the wing, wing, wing… Walkie talkie out, maintance crew with a big roll of duct tape arrived and put a big BandAid on the wing.
The pilots got their meal with a big caraffe of red wine, the plane did a sudden dive, the mediterrean looked like a waffle iron, then all hell broke loose. We were in a big, big thunderstorm, the bandaged wing was flapping furiously….
I can’t help it, but I think my life was spared because of DUCT TAPE!
Lol. So true.
The Mythbusters made an entire episode on Duct Tape. They lifted a car with it, they made a canon with it and a small sail boat… YES A BOAT MADE OUT OF DUCT TAPE!
Duct tape is perfect for making sure your little siblings are quite while you are tying to do something that requires conerntration and or silence, including road trips. Just make sure that you don’t get yelled at.
I just made a duct tape wallet and some people made a big sign out of duct tape for a high school
“Silence is golden, duck tape is silver.”
I think duct tape is very hand and durable, it is a good thing to have on hand to rig things if you dont have any better means of repair. How about vice grip pliers they are a true multitasker as well
About 10 years ago, we had a leaky pipe under our kitchen sink and found it due to the previous owners’ DIY incompetence. I tried replacing the pipe & fittings but the whole shebang was at an uncompromising angle. So I wrapped it in duct tape. After 10 years, still no leak!
Did you watch the mythbusters show on duct tape. It was pretty awesome.
How are the force and duct tape similar?
They have a dark side, a light side, and they hold the universe together.
Hands up to duck tape. I keep one roll in the house and one in the car.
It works so well that I used it to tape up the washing machine front panel when the screws wouldn’t stay in that held the washer together. It worked beautifully after that.
This was after several attempts to keep the screws in I just said heck with it grabbed the duck tape and wrapped it around the entire washer.
duct tape really sucks. shame on you for promoting a product on yahoo. do they pay for ad time?
HELL YEAH i use duct tape to duct take my boobs together, and they looks nice and perky in my dress!. i have vicoria secret bras but DUCT TAPE works waay better. and i SWEAR HollyWood celebrities use them ALL the time on the RED CARPET. i swear !! and have you seen Girls Next Door show?, that briget girl ROCK ITS AND TELLS the camera SO HORRAY FOR DUCT TAPE ,
I’ve made entire outfits out of duct tape, but the most creative thing was my duct tape parties.
I would invite a few friends over and we would pick two people to be duct taped together (very tightly, back to back). Then, we would turn out the lights, lay the two people on the floor, and see how long it took them to get apart! As a bonus, we would hide a pair of scissors in the room to help them out (but they still had to be mostly out of the tape to even be able to stand or use their arms!) It is really a great party game!
I’ve ridden in a taxi in cairo where the seats and the dash were all held together by yards and yards of duct tape.
Luckily the seat belt wasn’t duct tape… it tears too easily!
The 2 most required items are ducttape and WD-40.
If it moves and isn’t supposed to…DUCTTAPE
if it doesn’t move and needs to….WD-40
Schneider National Carriers actually issues orange duct tape to their drivers to ‘repair’ anything that happens until they can get to the ‘pumpkin patch’ (the yard).
My husband drove for them for years. The first time I saw the duct tape and inquired about it, I howled at the answer! They actually get it in orange to match the paint on the trucks!!!
For me, it’s clothing. I keep a roll in my cupboard. Two strips strategically placed, and good to go! Plus I will use it for any purpose as well.
I actually had success with duct tape as a wart cure. My doctor and I had been going around and around with various treatments and this was what finally worked.
I fixed my first surfboard with ducttape worked great
These articles about duct tape are just highly unoriginal. I hate the world. And I hate duct tape. And now I hate you!
there are only 2 things you need in life duct tape and WD 40
When I was a girl, my family didn’t have much money…at all! So when something broke duct tape was used to fix it. It was used on pipes, furniture, appliances, winter clothing, ski gear, sleds, broken toys (and when we ran out of barbie clothes, duct tape was used to create some cool outfits!), broken tools, cars, etc. Once we got a car with the windows stuck at halfway down because the electrical was disconnected so duct taped was used to cover the opening. We were getting this car to drive 3000 miles from northern California to Florida in early April so we experienced crazy weather changes! It held through blinding snow storms to heavy rain to extreme heat in the east, when we finally ripped it off because no one could breath…. Good times.
When I moved out with my boyfriend, he taught me the proper way to fix just about everything with real tools and the right materials. It was much more effective on the cars lol! Do it right or do it twice was the motto. Duct tape is still always handy (esp if you put it on the inside of RC car tires to keep them from ballooning at high speeds to maintain traction, it works great!) but now I’ve learned to appreciate other useful items like vice grip pliers(so true Evan!), screws, canned air, WD-40, zip ties and electrical tape! Electrical tape is invaluable as well and don’t get me started on zip ties!!
It was definitely interesting to read the history of duct tape, thanks for sharing!
did you know they make about 30+ colors of duct tape? you can pretty much fix anything, anywhere, and have the exact color match. ha.
lol have u seen the mythbusters’ uses for duct tape AMAZING EPICNESS
My kids would use duct tape to repair their school binders when they were falling apart towards the end of the school year. They liked the appearance so much however, that they would wrap brand new binders in duct tape. Later in college, I saw them use duct tape to repair sneakers when the soles were falling off and to rebind textbooks when the covers were falling off. Sadly, the price of duct tape has gone up and the manufacturers aren’t so generous with the amount you get on one roll, so it’s not as cheap a fix as it used to be.
I use duct tape to wax my eyebrows. No joke
. I save about $10 in salon fees every time I do it myself.
add shoe goo to your tool kit and you will be a god.
I use duct tape for big nasty cuts that i’ve gotten in the past. It’s perfect. Ever get a cut from metal? Just pour alcohol over it, or clean it out somehow, then wrap it in duct tape.
I have used duct tape to repair a kitchen door. It has been fiive years now and it is still holding. I have used duct tape to fix a my fridge door. It has been 5 months..still holding. Today I used it to for to keep an extention cord from becoming a triping hazzard. I taped the cord to my concrete walkway. Yup, holding well. Gorilla (the black kind) duct tape rocks!
I know that is the reason I always have duct tape around. To tape my husbands hands and mouth shut LOL no kidding it is a good thing to have around the house, car or anything else that needs fixed
ive made purses, top hats, wallets, and even duct tape roses. my friend and i are working on duct tape dresses for a school dance=]
Apparently they send a roll of duct tape up on every space shuttle mission!
Duct tape is my bands name.
duct tape is overrated
i havent’ used it but i know a guy who one time bent a small tree with his friends when he was at school and he was high… the teacher told him to fix it so he wrapped it up with ductape reconnint the base with the tree.. oh and long story short… the tree is alive and you can go today and see the duct tape hanging off of the bark
Are you aware that the inventor of what is now manufactured as “Duct Tape” is an invention by a Motion Picture “Gaffer” (electrician) to hold lights up on walls which then could be removed without damage to the surface of the wall (paint or wallpaper)? He even got an Academy Award for his “Gaffer’s Tape”.
Old Andy the handyman was so fond of using duct tape to fix just about anything that when he died, in homage to him, his funeral urn was generously sealed in duct tape. I’m not kidding.
good job help people in math homework in any type
I made a wallet of duct tape when the Red Green Show was still in production. Red, the king of duct tape, was coming to our city for the PBS telethon at the time and I had the honor of presenting him with my gift. I wasn’t actually on the telethon myself but he showed my wallet and read my name on the air.
I LOVE Duct Tape, it definatly will save your butt if you are in a bind, I have used it for everything from fixing a leaky windshield, to building a toy box, but the most creative thing was using it to pull a car out of a snow bank!!!!!
My tool box has just a few things in it, Duct Tape, WD-40, vice grips, a hammer, a 2 ended screw driver, zip ties, gorrilla glue, and bungie cords, havent met a problem I couldnt fix yet LOL.
u r genous guy
If my grandma need to fix any in the house,outside or in the car she would use duct tape or super glue
I like to collect speakers, home & car, and on a few occasions i’ve collected car speakers with the surround (the stuff between the cone and the basket)
completely disintigraded (i think i spelled that wrong, lol) and made new surrounds using (what else did i have on-hand) duk-tap (that spelling was on purpose)
and they sound as good as (almost) new.
Were you awair that duct tape while it does have 10000000 uses cannot legally be used to seal ducts as it is notUL listed for the purpose and the code requires that all materials used must be listed for the purpose
What’s funny to me is seeing/hearing other people refer to it as duck tape! *grin* Just thinking about it makes me laugh.
Mythbuster’s lifting that up a car up with duct tape was awesome… the adhesive was so strong!
We actually have rolls of “Duck” tape on sale here. The brand is actually a Duck, so I think that spelling Duck tape is not wrong.
But then, I’m in the Netherlands.
My apartment has very drafty windows. I use duct tape to seal the gaps. Otherwise my winter electric bill would be up to $200.
I had this real crappy car in high school. A red 1991 grand prix. My drivers side window would not stay up so in the winter i went to the store and bought hot pink duct tape and taped my window up. That window stayed up throughout the whole winter! Im sure everyone has used duct tape for something at least once in their lives!
When I was a teenager we used duct tape all the time for varied amount of projects and a phrase was coined because of it. If you can’t fix it, duct it, if you can duct it, fu** it.
Duct tape is a great way to shave your head.
Take a look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYE1eNHffzE
duct tape is the most awesome invention ever, well…except for the TV remote of course, at least its not as reatarded as the abrbie doll…(UGH!) Its amazing cuz it can do anything:
pranking
hygene (spelling is not an improtant trait to me)
fixing stuff
making stuff
and much, MUCH more and plz check this out if your a fan of Bleach (anime)
http://www.fanfiction.net/~Lichimaru
lol, that was SO random, but check it out anyway!
Ever watch the “Red Green Show”. Duct tape is the “Handyman’s Secret Weapon.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5XVPSx9Dk&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Lnfpulwjc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWZUPH5JMI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J2c6EPgbWI&feature=related
If the women don’t find you handsome, they should at leas find you handy!
I made a duct tape mask, wore googles, taped my wrists and ankles, and pulled 6 yellow jacket nests out of a wall. I only got stung twice! Only because I did a sloppy tape job. PS. Be sure to warn your neighbors before you do this.
Gee, I never knew duct tape could have such an interesting history. Thanks Mike!
I duct tape EVERYTHING. Got a book called”The Duct Tape Book”. Here are a few ideas . Remove roadkill while keeping your hands clean. Remove dust balls under beds using these three steps: 1. Wrap duct tape sticky-side out around small dog. 2: Roll the dogs favorite ball under bed. 3: Yell “fetch!”.
Myth Busters did a special episode on duct tape, it is impressive what duct tape can do and how strong it can be.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IMuZY5U3AM
I was a Combat Systems Engineer in the Navy and I never left port without lots of it. It was great as ‘emergency rope’ and made for an excellent isolating material to prevent high voltage arcing in a key radar display in a humid environment when the ship’s A/C failed in the tropics.
duct tape also tastes good almost as good as crayons or paper and it is very good with fixing legos hardware and pretty much anything cept peanut butter jars
Its very good information.keep it up.
Canadians know how to show our love for Duct Tape. There was an entire show basically dedicated to Duct Tape, called the Red Green Show.
http://www.redgreen.com/
OMG I keep a roll of duct tape in my hand bag and my pencil case. I go no where without it
I love duct tape! I asked for nothing but duct tape last year for christmas, and I got my wish! I made suit’s out of it.
I got bored one day and made a wallet made entirely out of duct-tape. It can hold bills, has several slots for credit cards, and it even has a little pouch for coins that the coins can’t fall out of. It is a little big, and looks ugly, but hey! It works just fine.
This reminds me for the Red Green Show so much. Hahaha. There is nothing that you can’t fix with duct tape (or make) with Duct Tape.
i love duct tape! i’ve made a handbag out of it. 2 pocekets on the back, opening flap, small pocket on the underside of the flap, strap, and a small pocket knife pouch on the strap. i have yet to make a suit. i lack the tailoring abilities.
Two things you’ll ever need in your tool box….duct tape and WD40….if it moves and you don’t want it to…duct tape….if it doesn’t move and you need it to….WD40….
You think Duct-Tape is incredible?
You will appreciate it’s exact OPPOSITE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZu_ME2ZBZA
Who has time to read these? Don’t duct tape your car seats. My Dad did that to his car before he gave it to me. Eventually the adhesive got all over my clothes.
Gross! But, before the cutesy two sided wardobe tape, I know women who would duct tape their boobs in order to go braless.
So, I guess the previous answer, about if it moves and it shouldn’t, use duct tape, acutally works.
And the latter, because the duct tape is extremely adhesive, and in order to remove it, you would need WD 40.
In Viet Nam we would get a bullet hole through a helicopter blade that was’nt serious damage. We would Duck tape it up, and fly till regular scheduled maintenance time. Then we would change the blade.
My mum actually had some duct tape for Xmas thirty five years ago. She used it in art with her brother and managed to create a collage of her family.
Duct tape is useless. The end.
Wait to go duct tape! Why don’t some people see the value in it?
I agree that Gaffer’s tape is even better. It’s like duct tape on steroids. It holds everything
There’s only three things I’ve never been able to fix with duct tape.( *temp.repair material,gray)
1 A broken promise
2 A broken heart
3 Stupid
*description you put on a work order when you need to make “I duct taped it” sound hi-tech
I once wrapped my sock in duct tape, it was a long road trip and had a roll so…
I was going to test if I could put it in my pook without getting my sock wet but the problem was that I couldn’t get my sock off!
#1) I worked with sheet metal in one of my past lives. Most of our work was making and installing A/C ductwork. Duct tape is neither appropriate nor allowed in that work. There is a solid aluminum tape made for that purpose.
#2) For the most part I hate duct tape. The adhesive gets on everything and will not come off – ever! On the other hand, the adhesive hardens (especially in hot, cold, and/or moist conditions) and the tape backing will come apart.
#3) As an endorsement: I drove Heavy Haul trucks cross country for many years (over 2,000,000 miles) and got the front of my truck run over by a tractor trailer in a truckstop one night in Indiana. I duct taped the fender, which was literally only attached at the rear, back to the hood, went to the West coast, then went to New England before returning to the terminal in Atlanta and having the front end replaced. This was in the winter too, so was subjected to much cold, slush, and salt. But it was only a matter of about a week or two and I cleaned the surfaces extremely well before applying. Took a roll and a half and I had to redo/add on West Coast.
#4) So duct tape is useful for emergency repairs sometimes but you will not be able to use whatever it is in the same way as before – it will have to be replaced.
#5) Gaffer’s tape is to duct tape as painter’s tape is to masking tape. Use the first if you have a choice, the second destroys!
Man, all these comments are really good, but some of ‘em had me ROFLMFAO!
I’m not LOLing at y’all, im LOLing wit’ y’all
DUCK TAPE. It ROX, It ROLLZ, It ROOLZ!!!11!1
I Just fixed a leaky pipe with it
It’s good to make cargo boxes waterproof too!
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I used white duct tape to cover an ugly rotted away part of a wood window frame. Holding well and you can’t even tell from up close!
Its fine to say duck tape instead of duct tape accualaly b/c when it was first invented for use in ww2 thats what it was origginally called cuz it was water proof and green then they renamed it duct tape b/c after the war was over they used it to repair ducts.. but so many people dont say the t at the end anyway so prettty much either is acceptable now, so seriously people get the facts before you make rude comments about “stupid people”
i made a fitted NY yankees flat brimmed hat out of red duct tape
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