11-22-2001, 08:02 AM
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| Creative uses for duct tape.
This follows from a thread over in the fencing discussion.
What is the most creative use you have found for duct tape? How and where do you use it? What did you use before you discovered duct tape? How has it changed your life?
C'mon, people, fess up...I know I'm not the only one...
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11-22-2001, 08:42 AM
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| I don't like duct tape it's really icky and sticky. Now electrical tape is another story! I seem to recall having some problems with my practice foil last week which were solved with a bit of electrical tape 
The most creative use of duct tape I have ever seen was a car on the highway. The tape was holding the car's front bumper on and I think it was helping one of the back doors stay attached. Yeah that was fun to drive by lemme tell ya!
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11-22-2001, 08:49 AM
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| Persaonally, I advocate bubble wrap, but I have seen duc tape used quite a bit around the salle. It is wrapped around the "need to replace" fencing shoes, replaced the nut on the handle of the vice grip, held together the metal rods of the coat rack, held the coache's plastron together, and the tennisball to the string. It also held the telephone wires to the floor, and replaced tip tape. Oh, and yes, it is used to seam most of out medicine balls as well as patch the carpet where it has begun to run.
Now, I must confess, the members of my salle are much more imaginative with this stuff than I. I am responsible for one one of the items listed above. As I said, bubble wrap is more my thing.
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11-22-2001, 09:04 AM
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| How about these?
<a href="http://www.duckproducts.com/" target="_blank">http://www.duckproducts.com/</a>
<a href="http://allgallery.tripod.com/2001-05-05-DucTapeSeniors.html" target="_blank">http://allgallery.tripod.com/2001-05-05-DucTapeSeniors.html</a>
<a href="http://www.the-daily-record.com/past_issues/05_may/010521dr3.html" target="_blank">http://www.the-daily-record.com/past_issues/05_may/010521dr3.html</a> | |
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11-22-2001, 11:33 AM
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| The most creative use for duct tape I have heard is, get this .... air ducts 
Actually, every year at about this time, one of the big hardware and lumber store chains (Kent - owned by the Irving family, who also happen to own almost the rest of New Brunswick, large parts of PEI and Nova Scotia, and sizeable chunks of Maine) has a contest on creative uses for duct tape. Prizes are handed out by Red Green himself. I will see if I can locate information on the winners the past couple of years.
Do you guys get the Red Green Show down there? Possibly on PBS? It is one of my favourite shows (of the very few that I ever watch), but I fear that it may serve to add to the unfortunate stereotypic ideas some Americans have about us Canadians.
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11-22-2001, 11:48 AM
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| well all i can say is that the force is like duct tape.. 
it has a light side.. a dark side.. and it binds the universe toogether..
i have also seen it used in the place of wire ties.. rope, and many othet things.. but useing it for tieing one to a chair works also..
but electrictal tape works better for that.. it doesn't take the hair off you when you take it off..
don't belilve me?? try it.. it really works..
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11-22-2001, 12:28 PM
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| Purses, wallets, glasses-cases, ties...nothin' you can't do. I'm sure it could even be compressed to high enough density and sharpened.
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11-22-2001, 03:44 PM
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| [quote]Originally posted by Fencing Angel:
<strong>but useing it for tieing one to a chair works also..
but electrictal tape works better for that.. it doesn't take the hair off you when you take it off..
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Hmmm, someone has an, ah, interesting personal life, it seems ( or else works for the CIA )!
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11-22-2001, 04:16 PM
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11-22-2001, 06:39 PM
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| [quote]Originally posted by Inquartata:
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Hmmm, someone has an, ah, interesting personal life, it seems ( or else works for the CIA )! </strong><hr></blockquote>
How much you want to bet he's got a younger sibling, or three?
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11-22-2001, 11:57 PM
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| My strangest use would be in an art exhibition, keeping together the various pieces (torso, arms, legs) of a "cybersuit" (a bodysuit you put on with sensors that track your body and outputs that give you physical stimuli from a VR world) after so many people had used it all the original straps and seams were pretty much dissolved. | |
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11-23-2001, 10:42 AM
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| Keeping that broken piece of the mirror in our salle from falling on the ground.
Looks also like a big dinosaur according to some. Hey you see what you want in there.
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11-23-2001, 11:59 AM
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| Most creative use for duct tape??? OOOOOOOOOOH geez! Got to be tying the actors down to force them to learn their lines (j/k!!). Its also good for holding shoes together, and I've actually used it with great success to hold my bag together. Its also good wadded up and used for target practise on other people!
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11-24-2001, 06:19 AM
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| One of the fencers in our section uses it to keep her knickers up!
The other is EVERY space shuttle crew uses at least one roll obstensively to tape things to the walls of the spacecraft (or in some cases hold things together that they broke)(we design things to survive a 20g crash, but still haven't managed to make everything astronaut proof!). Personally, I think they have found far more creative ways to use it, but those uses still remain a government secret!
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11-24-2001, 02:46 PM
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| well i hate to tell you that i DON'T work for the CIA.. and i am the youngest of 2.. so that blows both theroys.. i just happen to read LOTS!! | |
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11-26-2001, 06:11 AM
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| Ahh... duct tape...
Anyway, in the German Military, we called the stuff Panzer Tape (which means Tank Tape). The Army used it extensively to patch up the Leopard II tanks.
I managed to snatch a double-wide roll of that stuff just before my time was over. I still have it and use it for just about everything. Securing a package? Not a problem. One present I sent out had to be hacked apart by a few big knives.
In terms of most creative use I'd have to refer to my best buddy. He had rodents chewing up all the hoses in his car (including the fuel line, radiator hoses, etc.). After replacing most of them two or three times, he just started patching them up with duct tape. Rodents never bothered his car again.
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11-26-2001, 06:19 AM
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| My son just use duck tape to tape up a bottle of Ranch dressing that broke. Save the rest of the bottle.
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11-26-2001, 08:14 AM
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| Duct tape and WD-40...the Yin and Yang of the Real Man's tool kit...
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11-26-2001, 07:39 PM
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| [quote]Originally posted by Cthulhu:
[QB]Ahh... duct tape...
Anyway, in the German Military, we called the stuff Panzer Tape (which means Tank Tape). The Army used it extensively to patch up the Leopard II tanks.
I wonder if it's a German thing to apply tape to everything. My grandfather--born in Germany, came to the US at a young age--wasn't fond of duct tape, instead he carried a roll of what he referred to as "friction tape"--I'm still not sure what it was, but I believe it was electric tape--with him practically everywhere and applied it liberally to any and everything. He also thought he was an electrician--his father was an E.E. and taught all the kids basic wiring--the garbage disposal he installed himself held for 25 years, however after he died we had a plumber come to check it before we sold the house. The first words out of his mouth were: Who did this "Mickey Mouse" job. He also installed the chandelier in the dining room, we took that to our house after he died, the man who removed this was a friend of ours and restrained himself somewhat, but even he had to comment. He said, "This is the most interesting wiring job I've ever seen".
I too am quite fond of all varieties of tape to patch things, but I don't have any new uses, but I've done most of the ones already stated. My mom will tell you of numerous instances from my childhood when the house fell suddenly quiet--a known bad sign to anyone who has spent time with children. She'd ask me what was going on, I'd say, somewhat shakily "nothing, Mom."--an even more ominous sign. With this evidence she'd look for me and find me somewhere, perspiring heavily, trying to patch some innocent household object back together with the scotch tape. My other favorite tool is the glue gun. My response to most crises is, "Don't worry, I'll go get the glue gun".
At least in Utah, we have the Red Green show on PBS, channel 7 here to be exact. I love it, it reminds me of the previously mentioned, do it yourself, German grandfather.
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