BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 06:31 PM

Well...I t'ink we oughta use some of dat dere duct tape stuff to tape up Jean Chretien's mout' on da lef' side, and den he would stop talking like dis and talk like dat! By gar! Maybe den he could balance da budget and get dis country back in shape! And maybe den he and Bush could reach a new level of misunderstanding and we could start da War of 1812 all ovair again! Only dis time no more mister nice guy, eh?

- LH

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: pastorpest
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 04:30 PM

Completely wrap duct tape around the box board container your electronic tuner came in and you will have a secure case to keep the precious tuner in. The duct tape case will last as long or longer than the tuner, if you are careful to reinforce the flaps for opening and closing the tuner case.

Fix shower curtains when the hooks pull through the plastic.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Kaleea
Date: 08 Apr 01 - 12:24 AM

Ah! Duct tape: Southern Engineering at it's finest!Guitar players: My pal's guitar needs a new bridge & the strings are always breaking. Sometimes 5-6 times in a couple hours. I suggested he put a piece of paper between the string & the bridge. He came to the next session with -you guessed it!- duct tape under the strings. The strings break much less. You may all want to know that there is a duct tape calendar with a hint for each day of the year one can buy. Hints such as those not endorsed by the SPCA for example: wrap your little doggie like the mummy with duct tape sticky side out & send it under the bed to remove dust balls. (I have a long haired cat & no, I did not attempt that one.)

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 05:28 PM

we used to have duct-tape soccer games after festivals...scrape up all the leftover tape and form it into a ball...it bounces funny ways, but who cares at midnight after 2-3 days of work & music!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 08:46 AM

1) Watching Eurosport - Curling World camps.
They crouch on one shoe with a Teflon sole, and trails the other leg as an oar. On the toecap some curlers pu Duct Tape.
2) Roll into a ball and throw at a chimpanzee. If you miss it is probably because it was a "ducked ape"
**groan**

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 07:14 AM

I hear tinkers are also Jolly.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bert
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 01:17 AM

Aha! The truth is out. Bruce O. used to be a sheet metal worker. I KNEW you were a bloody tinker Bruce *GRIN*

Bert the boilermaker.

P.S. Before anyone takes this as serious, this is just fun. There used to be a lot of good natured banter between boilermakers and sheet metal workers (who we used to call tinkers). Actually a tinker is a mender of pots and pans, and sheet metal workers generally disapprove of being called tinkers.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 12:25 AM

A couple of years ago, a resourceful and peripatetic acoustic musician who many of you are familiar with, but whom I prefer not to name, stayed at my place while he was doing a gig here in town. Instead of a suitcase, he used a big cardboard box in which to haul his stuff around.

He kept the whole thing together with duct tape. Every time he opened the box, he cut through layers of duct tape. Then when he closed it again, he wrapped several new layers of duct tape around it. The box had more duct tape than box.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,#1
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 11:48 PM

Na, just take the old tape off and put new on. CCl₄ will clean it up very well. Your doctor may be able to give you a prescription for it. It's great medicine for your digestive tract (disolves livers and such), and makes your piss come out brown (until you die of course).

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,NH Dave
Date: 06 Apr 01 - 12:17 PM

The Air Froce came up with an improvement on duct tape, which we called F-4 tape. This was either thin steel or aluminum "tape" with sticky on the back that was used to make temporary patches to the skins of aircraft or helicopters after encounters with small, fast, sharp objects.

I've even seen this used on F-4 wings, for short flights, hence the name.

If memory serves, J.C. Whitney, a mail order car bits place, used to offer stainless steel tape for such high temperature repairs as mending exhaust systems, or the like. I have used duct tape and a couple of hose clamps to mend radiator hose in an auto, where the tem gets up around 212 F., and the pressure around 10 - 15 PSI. Tape the dickens out of the area around the leak, and then put on a couple of hose clamps to hold the tape in place. I'm so glad that now I am now to afford proper maintenance techniques.

Oh yes, when I returned to the US from Britain, I had the top and bottom of a dulcimer that I never got around to making. I put them between my guitar and banjo cases, and taped the two cases together with duct tape. And then the damned customs man asked me to open the cases! Which I suppose leads to the inevitable taping of hard cases together to make them last another 20 or more years. When the weight of the duct tape exceeds that of the case AND the instrument, I suppose it is time to buy a new case.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Les B
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 09:08 PM

The whole film world is held together with gaffer tape: everything from taping up small lights in hard to reach crannies & nooks, to putting a mic up the leading man's pants leg, to masking stray light off a lens.

At a recent birthday party, a gag gift was a natty second-hand sport coat entirely covered, tastefully, in silver duct tape. It was probably water and fire proof !!

A stage techie for a big summer concert told me that the huge stacked speakers were held together by 3-foot long strips of gaffer tape rolled in a tube and X'd to the sides of the speakers. He said it took three strong guys to pull the speakers apart after the show.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Hawker
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 07:44 PM

We used it to fasten a sheet of strong polythene over the hole in our camper roof, The vent cover blew off in a terrifying gale on the M6, whilst the lorry in front of us travelled on 2 wheels at an angle of aprox. 66 degrees. Due to us being a little lazy, the new polythene & duct tape cover stayed there for several months with no leaks!
Lucy

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,Bruce O.
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 12:22 PM

Bill D. I worked for a while in a sheet metal shop (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard), but we didn't have duct tape then. All rivets, or Heliarc welding for bigger pieces (which uses Argon, not Helium. Helium goes up even faster when its hot, and welds to aluminum just ended up as a pile of amorphous saphire). On something like an aircraft carrier or battleship you can walk upright in the air conditioning and ventilation ducts but you've got to wear cotton booties so you don't dent or scratch).

Wrap duct tape adhesive side out on an empty toilet paper roll, then roll it over clothes to take off the lint.

The government saved millions when duct tape came out because everyone was using that expensive plastic strip electrical insulating tape for taping everything under the sun.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 12:17 PM

folks, you wouldn't BELIEVE what you can find with a search engine!....(oh, silly me...of course you would!)

suffice it to say, duct tape can be and has been used for practically everything!...there seem to be many references to using it as breast support, disguise and 'restraint'..tsk!

here you go: (the more 'extreme' ones *grin* left out)and this only scrathes the surface!

http://www.cyberstones.com/cyberstones/style/0799/style1.html
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/diner.html
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=duct%20tape%20does%20not%20make%20a%20good%20bra
http://www.leanna.com/DuctTapeDouble/
http://www.ioweb.com/redgreen/tapeideas.html
http://www.th-record.com/archive/2000/10/14/ductside.htm
http://www.crosswinds.net/~duskt/goth/ductt.htm
http://www.onlinemadison.com/jan28/gary.html
http://tightlacing.com/aris.html

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Grab
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 08:39 AM

Our car's got a hinged flap for the fuel filler, instead of a normal filler cap. The hinges bust a little while back, so it was going around for a couple of months with duct tape stopping the petrol spilling/evaporating (or some git stuffing a match down it!) It's also the essential thing to take camping, for when you rip the tent's groundsheet.

I can't compete with taping boobs up, though...

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 08:09 AM

Alex, I don't live in a dorm!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Les from Hull
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 06:38 AM

Too true, Fib! There's a brand of duct tape available in the UK called Duck Tape. I had to buy some last year to make a dog collar for a vicars' and tarts' theme at Whitby. I could only get green, so when I was asked 'which denomination?' I answered 'lowest common'!

Still had enough left to fik our gig bags (you know the bit where the machines and string ends chew up the inside) and there's a strip holding my mellodeon bag together. Yer, Duck Tape. Better not tell Geoff and the Mrs, though.

Les

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 05:18 AM

duck tape - ho ho ho

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:34 AM

The Domestic Bird maillist is discussing how to use duct tape for a duck with a wing growing improperly: put the duck in a baby's T-shirt and then duct-tape its wings to its sides. An alternative offered is to take most of the stickiness of the tape by sticking it to your jeans, then simply tape the duck's sick wing in with it. You take the stickiness off so it won't stick too hard to the feathers, but the tape will stick to itself.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: gnu
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 04:18 AM

Alex said ... If you can call anything as round as a tube "cut square." I suppose I could have used more apt terms. Hmmm.... If you store your tube upright, you would cut the end of the tube true and, if you store it on its side, you would cut the end plumb.

As for having nails on hand that fit the tube well, I could never cut the end of the tube so that any size nail would fit and that's just my luck - bad. Plus, I've never had a brilliant in my hand. Living 20km from the ocean in a climate that sees frost cycles as often as seven times a week in the late fall and in the early spring makes you cringe at the thought of using anything but hot dipped... no good for plugging tubes of caulking.

Speaking of galvanized, does this piss anybody else off ? Nowadays, all you can find are the newfangled galvanized, smooth as a baby's butt. I guess they are cheaper to manufacture, but they won't bite worth a tinker's compared to the old hot dipped. Driving them toe sucks - see above "frost cycle".... you'd have to drive a heck of a lot of nails to save enough galvanizing to pay for a nail puller.

Anyway, trust me. The tape thing works as well as the screw-on storage caps on the expensive tubes and if you live in a climate like mine, where caulking might sit on the shelf for four to six months of the year, the tape's the clear riggin'.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 01:56 AM

i use to go diving for deck screws....on an almost daily basis....

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: mousethief
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 12:55 AM

Only in your dorm room, Matt.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Matt_R
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 12:51 AM

Hmmmm....shoving in long fat nails, and rubbing deck screw heads? Is there something Freudian going on here?

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: mousethief
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 12:38 AM

If the nail is as wide as the tube it doesn't matter if the end is cut square.

If you can call anything as round as a tube "cut square."

Alex

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 07:16 PM

gno, gno, gnu...you CAULK the part that isn't cut square...with your other caulking gun...then you....ummmm

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 06:40 PM

But your caulking won't last for months and months with a nail unless you recut the end square. Oh.... I see.... happy weekender specials. Got a large supply of masking tape on hand, do we, lads ? Perhaps some latex gloves ? Rent nail guns and compressors for the BIG jobs ? Get your lumber loaded by the skinny kid ? Make a special trip to get that stud finder on sale ? Got a five foot carpenter's level for fence posts ? Rub deck screws in your hair so they'll drive easier ? A fine bead, indeed !

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 06:23 PM

here you go, Alex

or would you prefer Canadian?

(been using the nail trick for years)

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 05:18 PM

To keep caulking fresh, just shove a long, fat nail into the spout. When you pull the nail out, it will leave an open track down to where the unhardened caulking is.

Saves duct tape and you can use the nail over and over.

There's my household tip. Do I get $5?

Alex

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 04:31 PM

We are definitly on the home stretch here...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:36 PM

Do you wish you could buy those cheap tubes of caulking, with the cheap caps, use less than a tube, and not have the remaining caulking rendered useless by shelf curing ?

Never fear !!!!! Take a piece of duct tape about 50mm long. Place it at an appropriate distance from the cut end of the "spout" and wind it around the spout, forming a circular tube. Squeeze about 10mm of the end of the tape tube together. The goal is to leave an air space about 20mm long past the end of the spout. Inject caulking into the space until you feel, with you fingers, that you've got a fair bit of caulking in the space. Then tape the gun end shut.

VOILA !!!!! Just like the day you bought it. Of course, if you bought it at Crappy Tire, the shelf life probably expired a couple of months before you left the store with it. I've kept half-used silicone caulking tubes for a year like that.

And remember.... check the due date.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 03:10 PM

now in the USA, "duct tape" and "gaffers tape" are different products...similar, but use different adhesive and fiber. Stage hands and roadies would not DREAM of using duct tape to fasten cables to pillars or floors..etc...it leaves residue and does not tear the same way..Gaffers tape is not usually an off-the-shelf item in stores, and is more expensive.

also, McGrath..there's another UK/American difference in terminology..... 'Araldite' is unknown here...we say 'epoxy'....Araldite seems to be both a brand name and a general class of adhesives called "epoxy resins"...but in the UK, it has become synonomous with one company's products.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Amergin
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 02:37 PM

A couple of years back, my little brother made a wallet soley out of duct tape.....he had it until some bastard stole it from his gym locker at school, a couple of weeks ago....

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: enkd
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 02:26 PM

• Once, while babysitting, I used little strips of duct tape to fasten a disposable diaper when the little adhesive strips didn't work. (parents were surprised, but as Vermonters, they appreciated the resourcefulness)
• Many, many repairs to canvas Converse Chuck Taylors
• Repaired MAJOR holes in a ski bag which has survived several plane trips since
• Made DOZENS of ski ties (to hold a pair of skis together, base-to-base... one loop with the sticky side out covered with another loop, sticky side in)
• And my favorite...last Halloween, I constructed a scale-mail shirt entirely out of old CD-ROMs and duct tape...

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: MMario
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:41 PM

ah! I'd forgotten about that! temporary repairs to breeches seams during a play - had about 30 seconds to repair a major split on an actor...

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 01:35 PM

I thought that might be it. Masking tape is the stuff for me - putting up notices, cleaning surfaces, holding any kind of temporary repair together (for example while the Araldite sets), and a million other uses. And you can take it off as soon as you want without any hassle. And it doesn't leave any marks or damage normally, so you can use it on guitars holding the cheat sheet on etc.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Kim C
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 11:39 AM

We have used it to temporarily repair reenacting clothes. One night as we were walking out the door to something, my hoop skirt popped and I used duct tape to fix it. That same night, Mister used it to hem his trousers as he had not yet finished sewing them. :-)

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: mousethief
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 11:16 AM

If you're putting your instrument cases on the airplane through the luggage check, wrap around the whole case and cover all the latches with at least 2 layers of tape. This will make them less likely to pop open and get torn off in handling.

As soon as you touch down and reclaim your instrument, unwind it and throw it away (the tape, I mean) -- less likely to leave marks on the case the shorter a time it's on there.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:17 AM

heh heh heh Matt - I haven't tried it yet. I never have occasion to wear the only strapless dress I own, and when I do, I'll need the duct tape to hold the damn thing up.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: MMario
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:10 AM

it also works well in making 3D maps or dioramas.

It can be substituted for flypaper.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:07 AM

awww Bless Matt... you poor thing, go and have a cold shower...

Lol

Calm down matey

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 10:05 AM

All this talk about Fib & Ella's breasts is starting to make me think I need a cold shower!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:33 AM

It is... though personally I have never tried it...

There's not much call for halter neck tops, strapless gowns or similar clothing to be worn at the sessions I tend to go to... So don't feel the need.

Ella

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:28 AM

Yeah, I'm in Bristol, Ella, but my friend's back in Belfast. That'd would've made a nice co-incidence though. Evidently the duct-tape-bosom-lifting practice is more widespread than I imagined!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Micca
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 09:07 AM

kevin Duct tape in American= Gaffer tape in UK and is a force to be reckoned with, We Repaired a Giant( 12 feet tall figure) in a procession and it held all the way with no ptob, and we have repaired giants clothing too

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 08:21 AM

Fibula... I too have a friend who uses tape in that way... Though she used parcel tape... silly thing didn't think as far as having to take the stuff off again.... But she swears by it. ouch!

Hey... Fibula... arn't you in Bristol.....? Well I'm just on the other side of the Severn Bridge.... perhaps, nah... can't be a co-incidence... nah...hmm

I use duct tape to attach my mic to my boom stand, as I have lost the little gadget bit that should be used to attach my mic to the stand... hmmm Ella

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: RichM
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 08:15 AM

my bandmate has a favorite pair of comfortable slippers--held together with-you guessed it: duct tape!
I had thought of buying him a new pair as a gift. But then I decided it's more appropriate to simply gift him a new roll of duct tape...

Rich

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 08:13 AM

My friend swears she used it to provide uplifting bra-less support when wearing a strapless formal dress. You run the tape from one side of the breasts underneath to the other side so it squishes them together and pushes them up. Apparently it's a supermodel technique. Cheaper than a wonderbra.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 08:03 AM

McGrath, it's the tough, thick, extremely stick silver-metallic tape with the fibers running through it.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 08:00 AM

Now is "duct tape" the same as "masking tape", which is basically tough waterproof paper, and which is useful for every purpose under heaven? Or is it that plasticised stuff that I can't manage to use without tearing my teeth out and destroying my fingernails?

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Iguanaguy
Date: 04 Apr 01 - 07:38 AM

Okay, heer goze:

Duct Tape is like The Force...it has a light side, and a dark side...and holds the Universe together!

...Couldn't resist...

Mark V. 8:)