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How Duct Tape saved my day

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Duct Tape is like magic. The A-Team wouldn't have survived an epi without it. Mythbusters managed to create a functional plane and an boat out of Duct Tape (truely worth watching it on YouTube). Let's not discuss the awesome options for applying it on my Hubby Dear :D I had a roll in the back of my car for many years (driving older, less reliable cars which needed some TLDTC now and then) and it is around every package we send out.
How did Duct Tape save your day once?

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When I held the bank up it was very useful with dealing with the guard! Lol no its saved me time after time just could not help myself !
 
Didn't have Duct tape when I had the Spitfire, but electrical tape and coat hangers solved a lot of problems. Leaky radiator hoses for one, broken wires for another. There was another black tape that wasn't as smooth as electrical tape, but just as effective.

A matchbook was another tool. The car's points would close for no reason, and a matchbook was very close to the spec if you had to gap the points on the road.
 
Sounds like the time when a friend and me had to replace a rubber sealing ring on a Russian Dnepr motor cycle with sidecar in Sweden. We abused a baby teat for it :p
Or when we had to outline the back wheel of that bike after replacing the spokes. I used white tooth paste on the tip of my finger and held it next to the turning wheel.
And since this bike is notorious for falling apart even when standing still, we sure had a roll of duct tape in the sidecar with us during our trip back and forth to the Northcape of Norway :D
 
Although I do love duct tape, I'm more partial to black electrical tape. It's so...HANDY! Take my current smartphone, for example. It's a Motorola Atrix 2. Very similar to its predecessor, the Atrix 4G. Except for one glaring 'feature'--its auto-shutoff for the lit-up icons (settings, home screen, etc.) at the bottom of the phone. It's now controlled by how much light there is around it. In other words, if you're in a brightly lit room, they shut off; if you're outside in the dark, they come on. Well, I don't LIKE that! :mad: I want them on all the time. So what did I do? Carefully placed a tiny piece of black electrical tape over the light sensor! Problem solved. :D
 
I prefer drafting and painter's tape. You can remove them and they leave no residue.
Good for marking temporary lines.
 
Ahh duct tape, how we love thee! :)

Best use ever was half a roll of the stuff, to secure an MTB chainstay after the weld failed. It was a slow and slightly hairy ride home, with the rear end feeling very 'soggy', but both bike and owner survived.

I carry a small roll when backpacking as it's invaluable. I've used it to hold a ripped tent flysheet together, repair a broken tent pole, fabricate extra attachment points/straps on a rucksack, repair a bothy toilet shovel, and even construct a makeshift raft to get gear across a swollen river more easily.

Runner-up award goes to its cousin, black PVC electrical tape. A few strips of that magic stuff over the logos on my SLRs renders them almost invisible and lets me photograph my landscapes undisturbed by grockles asking "That looks like a good camera.... what are you photographing?" ;)
 
Give me duct tape or zip ties and I "think" I can fix anything. give me both and I know I can:p
 
If you sew, you can make a duct tape "double" dress form, and kids have had contests for prom gowns, etc. with the stuff.
 
Kaat72 said:
Mythbusters managed to create a functional plane and an boat out of Duct Tape (truely worth watching it on YouTube).

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I absolutely LOVE those episodes of Mythbusters! So much so, that I am going to do one of three things one of these days, A. Buy that sailboat from them and have them sign the sail, B. Ask them to build me one, or C. Build one myself. I promise if any of these things come to pass ill take you for a ride!
 
My sister made a dress out of duck tape, it looked cool. But duck tape saved the day for a bunch of bored Marines in my unit. All we had was a couple of rolls of duck tape and a tent pole. Instant baseball game...
 
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