BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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 - 12:55 AM

Only in your dorm room, Matt.

Alex

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: 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: 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: Fibula Mattock
Date: 05 Apr 01 - 05:18 AM

duck tape - ho ho ho

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: gnu
Date: 07 Apr 01 - 07:14 AM

I hear tinkers are also Jolly.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Lin in Kansas
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 12:26 AM

John in Kansas -- sneaking in on dear LIK's cookie --
I don't think there is any need to add more variations to the theme of 'name two or more objects that can be joined together with duct tape' but for all of those who know and love the product in it's many forms, two above posts require comment.
Carol C. asked "What can't you do with duct tape?" The simple answer is "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT OFF." This is really only true after it's been in place for a while, but can be a real problem.
GUEST#1 suggested CCL4 (usually called "carbon-tet" in local usage here), but - as stated - it has a tendency to be VERY toxic - and is banned in most civilized circles. Dried on, hardened, cooked, petrified duct tape (and masking tape) adhesive can be readily removed by rubbing gently with MENTHOLATUM. This is a trick I discovered more than twenty years ago and have used since. I have tried the similar VICK's VAPORUB and it doesn't work at all. Apparently the petrolatum-menthol combination is special, and petrolatum camphor doesn't have the same effect. (I have also tried most conveniently available solvents, soaps, etc. and nothing works as well as the menthol petrolatum.) Smells nice, non-toxic, and you can cure your head congestion while you work. (The smell fades in a few hours.) Cheers - and happy taping.
JohnInKansas

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Philibuster
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 12:45 AM

Use it on your fly when your zipper breaks. Draws questions, and it's hell to take a wiz, but it's better en havin 'Littl' Phil' hangin out.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 03:50 PM

But then what if those little curly hairs get stuck to it? That could be a real problem. Why not just wear Bozo the Clown underwear like Spaw does? Then if your zipper breaks you've got an instant art show. Or buy pants that are way too long, and then your nose will hang out instead of "Littl' Phil", only offending a few people...well, maybe more than a few in your case. :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: tiggerdooley
Date: 09 Apr 01 - 04:06 PM

I made a flat mirror into a secure stand-up mirror for my dressing table using duct tape. It DIDN'T fall over in the middle of the night, almost scaring me to death. There lies the difference between DUCT tape and MASKING tape!!!!!!!! I have learnt my lesson....

Fibula and Ella, it may be cheaper than a wonder bra, but you get covered in sticky stuff. Not v. attractive, I can tell ya!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 10:10 AM

I thought I'd bring back this old thread when I found this particularly fascinating use........

Stick,.....er, uh......CLICK Here

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: DancingMom
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 10:37 PM

My husband, Mr. Aesthetics, once reupholstered the seat of an old rocking chair with duct tape. Worked great for a while, but then the ends started to curl up a bit and would stick firmly to our butts when we tried to haul ourselves out of the chair. He uses it to attach plastic sheeting on the windows of our drafty old house every winter for insulation, too.

I nursed the kiddie pool through one more summer plugging the leaks with duct tape. I've also hemmed marching band pants and various costumes as well.

I had heard of the duct tape strapless bra, too, not brave enough to try it. Sharon

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Dec 01 - 11:11 PM

SONG WRITERS NEEDED! New song entitled "Duct Tape Mkes the World Go Round" needs lyrics.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Amos
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 12:27 AM

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Milkdud22
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 12:45 AM

According to my friend, if it can't be fixed with duct tape, it ain't worth fixin'. This soccer season my cleats were falling apart, and toward the end, the only thing holding them together was spit and duct tape. My mother also used to wrap my twin sister in duct tape to keep our diapers on. We had the worst habit of taking of clothes, untying shoelaces, etc. I also heard of a girl who was trying to win a college scholarship by making a dress out of duct tape. It looked quite cute and fashionable, and I had no idea duct tape came in so many colors!

-Milkdud

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: heric
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 12:50 AM

Last year, there was a news story from the deep south: Some kid saved his own life, honest to God, with duct tape. He was lost in an alligator infested swamp, so he tied himself up in a tree with duct tape and made it through the night. Best use of duct tape ever.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: GUEST,Lynn T
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 12:35 PM

Want a perfectly-fitted dress dummy? Get a turtleneck or longsleeve t-shirt you never want to see again, several rolls of duct-tape and a patient friend. Put the shirt on over whatever undergarments you plan to use with the finished clothing (ex: corsets for reenactors, or your favorite style of bra, Spaw) Have your friend start plastering six-inch lenths of the tape in all directions on the outside of the shirt's torso, until it assumes your shape and gets pretty stiff. Have your friend slice the shirt open down the center back so you can escape, then insert a hanger across the shoulders and a pillow in the bodey cavity, stitch the thing back up, and you've got an instant double. If you hang a chain from your workroom ceiling, you can then hang the dummy at your height from the floor, so you can get a rough cut on pinning up hems without bothering your friend again.

After decades of doing costumery for reenactors, I have a corpse's gallery of these easy dummies hung from curtain rods slung from my workroom ceiling. I use a window hook to fetch down the one I want to hang from the "working chain", which has colored marks on the chainlinks corresponding to marks on the neck of each dummy-hanger, so I know how far off the ground to hang the thing. Works great!

Lynn

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 12:58 PM

uh, yeah.......say, look here, I'd like to make myself available as a taper and cutter for any of you Mudcat women which might be interested in what Lynn describes. I'd be happy to help feeling forming you up anytime.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 06:19 PM

Many years ago, I went to a job interview where they had one of them high-powered human disusers graduates give me an "aptitude test." One of the questions was "list as many things as you can think of to use a wire coat hanger for."

Well, he 'lowed as how my 140 odd uses was 40 or 5 times the normal, but he congratulated me profusely for being the first one who ever listed "you can hang a coat on it."

So do we need to say ----- "you can tape a duct?"

Frankly, I like a lot of the above uses a lot better.

As a side note:

In the aircraft industry - the better grade of "duct tape" is called "duct tape." The metal tape version is sometimes called "300 mph tape." (They use it a lot in wind tunnel tests.) The run-of-the-mill hardware shop stuff is called something best omitted here.

John

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Willa
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 07:09 PM

Judging by the posts on the 'Son of stony stratford' thread, there'll be a great need for it there in order to repair all the inflatables!

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Robin2
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 09:28 PM

My whole life is held together with duct tape

Newest use..holding our left headlight in after hitting a deer
We go through so much duct tape, we've become picky about what kind we buy...never buy "Duck" tape, it just isn't very good(hard to tear, and not sticky)

You see, duct tape was invented by the south during the civil war, and if they would have developed it just a little sooner, the south would have never lost the war...

Why do you think it's gray?

Robin

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Janie
Date: 12 Dec 01 - 10:24 PM

The plexiglass window to our storm door has been duct taped in for going on 3 years now. Duct tape patched our folboat in a very dicey blow down in the Florida Keys. I have used it for an emergency hem job. Half of the toys my son and I have invented are held together or reinforced with duct tape. Given a roll of duct tape, tie wire, sheet metal and a bic lighter and one can probably make, rig or repair anything.

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: WyoWoman
Date: 13 Dec 01 - 12:32 AM

Bikini wax, anyone? Anyone?

Bueller? ... aaayeeeeeyoooowwcchhhhh!

ww

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:24 AM

This morning's edition of the daily rag includes an article on a local couple who made their complete prom outfits from duct tape. Here "Flamenco style dress with 28 yards of lacy black trim on the flounces was made with pinking shears and a flower-shaped hole punch." Reportedly, you can't stitch the stuff, so it was all stapled. But she say's it was waterproof, when it rained on the prom.

Unfortunately, the paper's web site doesn't post pictures. I will attest that she looked quite fetching. He was sorta ordinary.

Their effort was apparently in response to a contest - by Duck Brand Duct Tape, who else?

Maybe someone would get a Mudcat Calendar idea from The Contest

John

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:52 AM

I admit to not having read all the way thrco' the thread, but "Apollo 13" was repeated yesterday on the BBC. I don't think you can beat their use of it.
At the World SF con I saw a series of badges;
"Gaffer Tape / Duct Tape is like The Force it has a Dark side, a Light side, and it binds the universe together"

Subject: RE: BS - 99 great uses for Duct Tape!!!
From: JedMarum
Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:54 AM

This stuff is essential for a stage! I use it to anchor cables and/or wires so they don't create hazards under foot.

I use it to keep the snake fixed and out of the way of heavy traffic so it does not get damaged.

I also use it to create handles for boxes so I can carry them some distance comfortably - eg carrying in two or three boxes of CDs to a festival, I sometimes tape the boxes together in single group, then pull up a loop of tape, doubled over on itself to make a handle. Works great, then I just throw away the handle when I'm done. And if I don;t sell all the CDs - I repeat the process to carry them back out after the festival is over!