Duct tape survey

[misterx]

Please share you most heroic or unusual uses of duct tape. Thank you.

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[zipotle.livejournal.com]

I once had a car that had bits of it held on by duct tape.
It was a silver car so it blended in! Sort of.

[ilea.livejournal.com]

I once was carving a stick and sliced my thumb open. Mom wanted me to go to the er for stitches but we didn't have insurance so I refused. I grabbed duct tape and taped the wound together. After about a week I went to normal bandaids

[blues-dream.livejournal.com]

Not my use, but there's a car I see around the neighborhood from time to time which is completely (with the exception of the windows, of course) covered in duct tape. I'll have to get a picture one of these days.

[simplykimberly.livejournal.com]

This doesn't quite count since the response was a set of rolled eyes and a "whatever", but just last night, walking through Costco, my 14 year old son begged me for the 8-pack of red duct tape, in order to keep away zombies. Apparently that's what it's good for - outlining an area that zombies won't cross.

No. Really.

He still seems to have the brains he went to sleep with last night, so I don't *think* zombies got his poor unprotected brain!

Probably.

[shazzy1972.livejournal.com]

I found years ago that duct tape (We called it hundred mile an hour tape), is fabulous for holding a magnetic CB antenna to the top of a fiberglass Trans Am.... so ghetto!

[ianlyzu.livejournal.com]

i'm afraid i am not very heroic or unusual, but duct tape was my friend on my 30th birthday when i wore a custom made, one strap silk toga and couldn't find a complimentary bra. little baby oil on the "sensitive parts" and the tape held me up all night!!!

[ianlyzu.livejournal.com]

that's AWESOME!!!!

[melanie.livejournal.com]

MrX has a story about a very unlucky bride who didn't know about the baby oil thing. You should ask him.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

ohhh yeahhh... i forgot totally about that!

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

Radiator hose busted on the way home from Wilmington, NC to Jacksonville, NC.

Wrapped that sucker with the green military duct tape (1k mph tape, we called it), and made it home, as if nothing was wrong, 50 miles.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

*whinces* Ouch.

[teal-cuttlefish.livejournal.com]

I ripped a hole in my wheelchair seat on the bus, and found some Duck Tape brand tape that nearly matched to patch the hole. I don't know if it's possible to repair vinyl upholstery, but a replacement seat is several hundred dollars.

[omnamahshivaya.livejournal.com]

my son's dad made a waller out of duct tape and gave it to my son to give to me..... it was weird!

[omnamahshivaya.livejournal.com]

spelling error: wallet

[misterx.livejournal.com]

No, he really made a waller. The question is which one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waller

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that in Tennessee a vehicle patched that way can still be considered "factory new".

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Freaking cool icon too. You didn't tell me you were a super hero.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

SWEET!!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

You must. The world needs to share in such glory.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I'm good to go regardless. :)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

If my kid had come up with that, they would have gotten their duct tape! I don't want to take any chances with Zombies.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

You ARE from Jersey, aren't you?! lol

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I am told it was more than a week after the wedding before the marriage could be made official.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

In situations where heat is involved, duct tape is great stuff because the heat just makes it all the more tenacious and gooey.

I know this, because I recently pulled duct tape off some wood that was adjacent to a heated waterbed mattress. Goo city.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, color matched duct tape is a great thing. I've patched holes in two different color weight benches with the stuff, patched the insulation in my dad's garage after my friend's pig scratched through it, and... and... surely other things I can't think of.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

I'll take your word for it.}:P

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

WD-40 is great for removing goo.}:P

[caraflower40.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention duct tape... as we speak duct tape is falling off of the duct work in the basement while synchronistically holding my freezer door in place.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

It wasn't us, btw!!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I find this in wikipedia: "After the war, the housing industry boomed and people started using duct tape for many other purposes. The name "duct tape" came from its use on heating and air conditioning ducts, a purpose for which it, ironically, has been deemed ineffective."

[brujaoscura.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago- my alternator belt went out on my car. Well we towed it back to the house (With me having a rather wild ride when the towing vehicle had to stop suddenly for a tractor- tow rope snapped and I went FLYING around them doing about 60 in a car with power steering and no power. Fortunately nobody crashed or was injured- I acted insinctively and swung the wheel around the car instead of plowing the tow car.)
When we got stopped(and my legs stopped shaking) we knotted the rope and duct-taped it- and went MUCH slower.
All I can say is- thank GODS it was a tow ROPE and not a tow CHAIN. The rope broke and left car intact- a chain would have ripped out vital parts of car and rendered it a total wreck.
(I can still here the "OH SHIT a FARMER!" and the screams of the people towing as I went around them, the tractor and down the road a good piece before I could get the car slowed enough to pull onto a shoulder- but I'm glad I didn't HIT the tow car- severe injuries to both people in it would have been BAD- not to mention what could have happened to ME)

[rhapsody-98.livejournal.com]

Kentucky Chrome!

[misterx.livejournal.com]

hahaha... yep.