> They do sell Duck Tape brand duct tape here in the US as well, but no
Real Life is Weirder than Fiction Department: Article in yesterday's paper
said an engineering research group found that duct tape has a variety of uses,
but oddly enough, it doesn't do well at sealing ducts. Apparently they tried
15 or 20 different
sealers--including
several different tapes (brown package tape, masking tape, clear,
etc)--and
duct tape came in dead last, "failing consistently and completely".
> Thomas Barclay wrote:
> laserlight spake thusly upon matters weighty:
Well...Electrical Tape is for insolating the connections, not holding them
togather.Use rosen core solder or crimp on connecters.
laserlight spake thusly upon matters weighty:
Isn't that Tuck tape?
Besides, Electrical Tape has always been crap for making electrical
connections hold together (use a Marrett or a crimp on connector), so it
shouldn't surprise us that duct tape is crappy for ducts....:)
> > They do sell Duck Tape brand duct tape here in the US as well, but
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Heh.. I still have several rolls of Olive Drab U.S. Army
Hundred-mile-an-hour tape!!!
Between that and my P-38 Ubertool (Vietnam-Era Steel one carried through
the jungles of Cu Chi!) Nothing is impossible!
Michael Wikan Game Design Slave Zero Accolade, Inc.
http://www.slavezero.com
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Even outside the military some of us live off the stuff. If I find a
near-empty roll of duct tape in my home I start to get a nervous tic. I
have never owned a car that I could describe as "new", or even "nice" for that
matter, and most of them have had some sort of patch made with the miracle
tape. There is almost nothing it can't do...
Almost, that is...it does seem to suffer from 2 problems
1) It sucks for sealing ducts 2) I can't recommend it for glass that you want
to see through after it is
removed - it often leaves a mess behind.
Los <los@cris.com> on 09/08/98 01:46:11 PM
Please respond to FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
To: FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
I don't know hwere all this sudden animosity for duct tape is coming from, but
in the military, we live off the stuff. I've been rigging palletts, jump
containers, web harnesses, whatever, with it for decades. And as an occasional
pit crewman for an touring class racing team, it's come in handy for field
expedient body work too!
Reminds me of my college roommate, who was a SCA person and an aspiring
aerodynamic engineer. His mantra was: "Duct tape, WD-40, or
Superglue--one
of those will fix it."
> The Society for Creative Anachronism lives off the stuff.
> laserlight wrote:
Your roommate is or was correct. However I might add that it is ONE of
those will fix it. They don't mix for squat.
Superglue and WD-40 is really bad juju....
> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> Los wrote:
That discription also fits "Red Green" (for those of you who haven't seen his
show...
He is a comedian from canada who has a half hour show on PBS -- here in
the states. One of the things he does is try to turn common ordinary objects
into something radically different...Usually by using MASSIVE amounts of duct
tape to hold it togather...Never seems to work very well. His favorite comment
is: Duct tape, The handyman's secret weapon!)
As Red Green would put it: "Duct tape - the handy man's helper"
But please don't use it for the same things Red does.
Los spake thusly upon matters weighty:
> I don't know hwere all this sudden animosity for duct tape is coming
No animosity for duct tape - someone just suggested it was found to
be the most inferior of duct sealing methods. I've used duct/gun tape
to tape together my mountain bike, my car, webgear, attach stuff to other
stuff, etc. ad infinitum also. Wonderful and useful. But the point was raised
that it might just be the worst commercial duct
sealer. And that I wouldn't doubt - as ducts will get hot and cold
and that can take its toll on most adhesives.
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