Aunt Dinah’s Duct Tape Diner - Still More Chatter

Rower’s Companion I work a lot with a local high school rowing team. We have used Duct Tape for a miriad of things, but the most unique was when that tiny seat mounted on the carriage of one of the positions in the Men's Varsity Eight (eight rowers and a coxwain) broke in two just prior to the race and 11/2 miles from any maintenance facility, we duct taped a flatbladed screwdriver under the seat and it held good enough for the boat not only to finish, but win the race. The hardest part was getting the screwdriver back off the seat so that I could put it back in my tool kit. --- Greg H,

No Visible Means of Support I once wore a open back dress to a formal. I couldn't find a bra that didn't show in some way, so I did a little duct tape job. It worked well, quite supportive. --- Deb

Pet Food Control and Swimming Pool Patch My husband got a 365 Days of Duct Tape calendar for 2000 for Christmas. We just rolled on the floor reading all the uses of duct tape. He is taking a course on trucking and he took the one for Jan. 2 about using duct tape for cruise control. Well, I guess the whole class laughed.
Here is my use. We have a cat and and dog inside the house and have to keep the cat's food up off the floor. Well, when she feels neglected or wants attention she knocks her food on the floor and all those little peices of cat food have to be picked up. Our dog has an allergy and has to have special food, so we can't let her clean up the food. I was going to put a rubber mat down, but knew she would still push the bowl off, only it would take her longer. But then, an IDEA!!. I got out the good old always in use duct tape and made a duct tape circle and put it on the bottom of the bowl and then set it on the counter. She already tried moving it and it stuck like glue. We use duct tape around here a lot. For crafts, fixing things, and I even used it to fix a small swimming pool when the kids were small. I put some duct tape on the top of the 1/2 inch tear and on the bottom and filled it with water. We used it all summer and only the silver colour came off, the sticky part stayed on the tear. It was still holding when we got rid of the pool. --- Sue Herkert

New Years’ Shenanigans: This new year started off right with the use of a lot of duct tape. I went to a new years party at my friend's house. First we handed out New Year's presents (a tradition among our friends). Every year we try and rig the gifts to make it impossible to open them.... this is where duct tape comes in. With the use of duct tape you can make gift wrap practically indestructible. After the gifts we brought out the pinata... appropriately wrapped in duct tape. When you were a kid it was hard to break through the pinata, but when you are 18 its all to simple. That's why we bind the thing in duct tape.... it took us about 20 whacks to break open that darn thing.
Another good thing about duct tape is that it also waterproofed our pinata.... instead of candy we filled it with Jello, and the duct tape made it leak-proof.

After getting completely covered in Jello we went inside to hang out. It was then that we got the brilliant idea to cover Zach's head in duct tape!!! Why hadn't we thought of that before!?! It was perfect, Zach had a buzzed head so we figured that it wouldn't hurt that much when we pulled it of.... right? Well once again we underestimated the sticking power of duct tape. We successfully coated Zach's head and neak (as to seem as if the tape continued down under the Hawaiian shirt he was wearing) the only part we didn't cover was his ears (it looked really funny that way.) We had left Zach a hole for his mouth and two nostril holes but we had taped over his eyes. We then made Zack pose for pictures (he does a great bowling pose!) When he decided he wanted to take the tape off, he started to tug at his face.... this, as you probably know, caused him a lot of pain. He was tugging and screaming and yelling, but eventually he managed to get the tape off of his face, head, and neat. The worst must have been when he tried to peel it off of his eyelids... we found that the skin there can stretch to amazing proportions! When asked if Zach would ever do anything like that again... he replied "I've done it once and I'll probably do it again!" All in the name of duct tape Id like to say! Happy taping! --- Dani Cox We are waiting to see the pictures! --- Jim and Tim

Joggers: Are those biker shorts chaffing? Make your own with duct tape. No more chaffing and in taking them off you get an expensive hair wax for free. --- D. Rust
Prepare for some nasty diaper rash!
I have had this idea for 12 years and have not had anyone willing to try it. I think this will replace disposable diapers.
1. Take a common bath towel (hand size) and wrap around baby like a diaper. (Use full size if baby is over 30 pounds).
2. Seal around the waist and legs with duct tape.
3. Cover with saran wrap and duct tape again.
4. I believe this is good for at least 6 days before changing.
5. Caution: Remove at a coin operated car wash and be prepared to run.
6. I am not sure if the diaper rash you encounter is due to prolonged diaper wear or the adhesive on the duct tape.
7. Anyway, I project the cost at $1.69 per diaper, making weekly cost under $2.00. Try and get that out of disposable diapers you buy at a grocery store! --- Jeff K.
Duct Tape Snake Trap
This holiday my daughter came to visit. Due to Y2k she brought along all her pets. She raises exotic snakes. We lost one of the baby snakes for several days and later found it stuck to a piece of duct tape that had missed the garbage can in the corner of her room. Bottom line if you loose a small pet in the house, lay some tape along the walls and there you go!!!! True story. --- Dave W.
Duct Tape Gull Wings Security
It was the fall of 1978, I think, and I owned a Volkswagen powered dune buggy with fiberglass roof and gull wing doors and an old Opal stationwagon. I was going to drive the onehundred miles from Plattsburgh Air Force Base to my folks home in Pierrepont. I started out with the Opal because it was too cold to drive the unheated Dune Buggy, but a mechanical problem with the Opal turned me around. Determine to get home for the weekend I through my bag and my laundry in the back seat of the buggy and headed out. I got to Dannemora, NY and decided there was a definite cold air leak in the gull wings, so I stopped at a hardware store to buy, guess what, a roll of duct tape. As I was buying the duct tape I engaged the young clerk in conversation and he followed me out to see the dune buggy, a rather rare sight especially in the fall of the year. I taped up the passenger door, walked around the car, still talking to the clerk, climbed in the drivers seat, pulled down the gull wing, opened the little sliding window, handed the clerk the roll and said, "Tape me in will you?". He hesitated slightly, citing safety concerns so I replied, "That'll be my problem but that stuff don't stick so well that I can't pop this door open." He proceeded to tape me in and handed me the tape. I traveled the rest of the way in relative comfort and had my older brother tape me in for the drive home Sunday afternoon. --- Marty Bates
Duct Tape for High Fashion
My wife has a duct tape pocket book. She carried it to a high fashion, elitist, snot-nosed society event where one of the matrons commented admiringly "It is sooo retro!" Wow! --- Rawls, S. Waite

Portable Pool
Every time it rained the bedliner in my Ranger collected water until I put it in gear and drove off. It would all run out the tailgate. I duct taped the seams where the tailgate closed against the bed. No more leakage. I filled it with water, added fish, and now I can pull over and fish (or take a dip) whenever I feel like it. Also good for midget ice skating in the winter. --- simmer99@...
Duct Tape Hair Cut Helper
This use is unbelievable. I hate going to the barber and spending 15 bucks for a haircut that takes 10 minutes at best. "Wrap a long piece of duct tape around the back of your neck at the height above your collar that you want your hair to be. " Make sure the tape attaches around to your ears for stability. Then use your hair clippers (scissors might also work) and trim away. You can't make a mistake! With the duct tape secured to the back of your neck, you will get a perfect' box cut.' --- Ken in Reston
Duct Tape EMT Technology
Some ambulance and fire agencies use duct tape to secure patients to back boards when transporting injured and ill people to the emergency room. It can be a life saver when used to prevent spinal injuries by minimizing head and neck movements. --- Laurel Paulson-Pierce E.M.T. Golden Feather Volunteer Fire Company
Splinter Removal
When I get a splinter, thorn, or sliver of metal so small you can't find it with the naked eye, just press duct tape over the area,and viola! Pull off the tape and out comes the offending object. --- Gomer@edge...
Winner! Kitty Land Minds
Take a couple dozen approx 2" stips of Duct Tape, Lay them sticky side up around the room. Take a laser pointer light and run it around the room with the Kitty Cat chasing close behind.When the Cat steps on the Duct Tape, it's like a Land Mine. The Cat Jumps Straight Up in the Air. Add sound effects, and there you go. Kitty Cat Land Mines ! --- ED

Roll camera! This sounds like it might win you a prize on America’s funniest home videos! (Or, a brick through the window from the ASPCA.) -- The Duct Tape Guys
U.S. Naval Repair
A few years back, while participating in the "Persian Excursion" (aka Desert Storm), I was stationed on an aircraft carrier. During the transit between the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, we developed a fuel oil leak in one of our fuel transfer lines for the boilers. Being in the middle of nowhere and in a dire need for fuel, we had to be quite creative in a last minute repair. Welding was totally out of the question because we would have had to secure two propulsion boilers (and one catapult) and move over 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Bearing in mind that we were on a strict deadline to meet our next scheduled launch of the air wing myself and a fellow lunatic devised a plan to fix the leak without stopping the flow of fuel. We took a few rolls of the red duct tape (used by the fly boys) and a few feet of emergency pipe patching liquid fiberglass (for sea water only) and effectively sealed the leak. By the way, that 'temporary' repair lasted for 4 YEARS!!!!! It wasn't until the ship was decommissioned that our little repair was discovered. --- Clint Deemer, US Navy
Duct Tape Sighting
That EgyptAir plane crash they're working on...just saw video of the robot being lifted out of the sea with a "black box" (yes, as we all know, the box is orange, not black) clenched tightly in its claw. Anyway, they always plunk it into a container of liquid (maybe just cold sea water to keep it the way it was underwater). So in goes the box, and then they showed the container lid being tightly sealed all the way round with...you got it, DUCT TAPE. I thought it would go into some chained, triple-locked container to prevent theft or tampering, but duct tape is good enough even for international investigations, I guess. --- Stephen Bauer, Portland, Oregon
Cordless Mouse Retainer
Computer users, have one of those cordless mouses? But you keep losing the mouse, duct tape it to the desk, and when you're ready to use it, remove the duct tape. --- Chaston Bastien
Bandage Bandage
As a housewife-turned-dayschool teacher, I've found that the only way to keep a bandage on a small child is to TAPE it. My 5-year-old cut off a good portion of the tip of his thumb (try band-aids on THAT area!), and I just wrapped some gauze with duct tape around it; that protected his thumb, padded it, and *eventually* came off. --- Amy Hedtke
Chat Boot
I work as a chatroom moderator for Talk City. As a requirement, our nicks have to contain the 3 letters "CCC" (meaning City Conference Crew) consecutively, so chatters will know who to ask for help, etc. Well, anyone and everyone that works there always hears this ongoing joke.

When people are having connection problems, after they get booted out of chat, and then return, we "DCC them some DuCCCt Tape" to stay put. It always makes us laugh, and helps the other person get over the frustration of getting booted. --- Judi Kelly
Wasp Remover
I was having a terrible wasp (bee or whatever they were) coming out of the cement seam between my driveway and garage floor. My kid had been stung in the face, the neighbors kid got it, I got. When washing the car I would swat dozens of these suckers with my sandles (it takes longer to wash the car when doing this!). I tried spraying wasp & bee killer in the seam. I sprayed that expanding foam stuff. Nothing worked. They just kept multiplying. Finally I put duct tape on top of the seam across the whole garage width. I did this in either August or September of 1998. I pulled up the tape around November. First, the problem stopped immediately!. Second, there were no bees/wasps this summer. --- Todd J.
Asbestos Shield
I'm in the asbestos abatement industry - we use duct tape by the case! --- Steve Ungaro
Winner! Pigeon Helmet
One of our pigeons had lost his mate and all the other guys started whacking him around the head. So I treated his bloody head and used gauzed padded duct tape to make him a little helmet, complete with chin strap to protect him from being savaged. He healed up fine and eventually I could remove his helmet when we got him another mate. --- Ingrid
Tin Ceiling on a Roll
Duct tape over paper plates that are stuck to your ceiling to create that popular tin ceiling look. --- Pam Lewis
Footwear on a Roll
Ever find your self short of a pair of sandles? Well, this past summer I was and all I had was a roll of duct tape and some...well a box made of cardbord and a marker. So I traced my feet on to a sheet of cardbord and taped six sheets of cardbord together so that my feet were a 1 1/2 off the ground. After that was done I thought that they needed some straps so I first compleatly covered the things in duct tape and then attached one strap for the toes, one for the heal, and two for the ankle on both sandle. I was suprised when I started walking in them because they were nice on the feet (not that I ever doubted duct tape). --- Gord Bunston

System Administrator Retainer
Always irritated the system administrator is gone when your computer is acting weird and the network goes down? No need to be irritated. Tape him to the server and you will always be able to find him in no time, provided you also tape the server secure to the floor of the server room. Or else there is a slight chance the sysadmin will start to roam around with the server taped on his back as far as the cabling allows. And that is NOT what we mean when we say the network is up and running (again). --- Jeroen
Glacier Traversing Tape
My adult children and I set out to climb Mount Baker (10,788') in August this year. After camping on the Coleman glacier at 7,100' we suited up at 3 a.m. to go for the summit. One MUST have a headlamp traverse glaciers in the dark. Mine had broken the the pack, and, to boot, another in our party inadvertently left his at home. We always carry spare maglites AND duct tape. So . .. we simply duct taped the maglites to our climbing helmets and away we went. Thanks to duct tape, we attained the summit at 9:15 a.m. before the sun turned the snow mushy. Another illustration of how one should never to anywhere on the planet without duct tape. --- Randy Faro

Sky Diving Tape
A friend and I once skydived from a Cessna 206 from 35,000 ft. In order to stay warm (less cold) since we had to fly to that altitude with the door taken off we DUCT TAPED a cardboard toilet-paper box over the hole in the side of the airplane where the door used to be. Then when we got to altitude we kicked the cardboard off and jumped out. None of it tore off in the wind on the trip up -- in fact it took two or three kicks to break it loose. --- Bill D.

DUCT TAPE was also used to secure the hoses to my harness from the oxygen bottle and to cover the hole in one of my boots (three full wraps around the insole). Incidentally, it works good on jumpsuits and helmets too. In fact the cameraman also used it to hold the camera wires down on his helmet. Skydivers usually call it "100 MILE-AN-HOUR" TAPE. But we proved it is good for a lot faster use. Love that tape. --- Blueskys & Fairwinds, Bill D., scr97 (see photo)
Computer Tape
I build computers for a living. Motherboards are offset from the case by brass posts that don't always match up with the motherboard holes very well. A quick, tiny piece of duct tape on top of each post has saved hundreds of motherboards from shorting out. It also adds some serious Americanism to the guts of the foreign appliance from hell. --- Jon L., Jon’s Computer Works, Inc.
Let Your Love for Duct Tape Keep Burning!
Burn it as a candle. It actually smells quite nice. --- General Wedge Antillies

Child and Possum Proofing
I used duct tape to childproof my trailer. It covers electrical outlets, holds the cabinets shut and pads any sharp corners. I also used it as a possum trap when they were getting inside. --- Sarah Alewine

Society for Creative Anachronism
We have gotten TONS of letters over the past three years from members of the SCA - here is a sample:
I do medieval re-creation with the SCA. We use duct tape for darn near EVERYTHING. When a piece of armor pops off, it gets fixed by using duct tape. Our swords are made using rattan and duct tape. Tents can easily be repaired using duct tape.
But the best usage I've found for duct tape is in making clothing. Since nobody makes realistic patterns for medieval clothing, we're forced to make our own. When you make a bodice (tight vest type item of clothing), you have the person who you're making a bodice for get dressed in two old tee shirts. Then, you duct tape the outer tee shirt to the person's body. Then you draw lines on the tape for how you want the bodice to fit on them, then proceed to cut out on the lines! A perfect form fitting bodice, every time!
Other uses include holding my sewing machine together, using it as interfacing when I need something super-sturdy, and holding my boots together! Also for picking up lint, pins, needles, and leftover threads on the floor! --- Cyd

Duct Tape Bug Trap
I use duct tape for catching flies and other bugs on our deck. Just sprinkle some sugar on the sticky side and stick it on a board and sure enough the bugs go for it and we have them tape trapped! (This really works! No poison is needed so it is safe for the environment.) --- Thanks to: Jay Steffler

Duct Tape is Dangerous!?
I've noticed in the news that a lot of murderers are using duct tape to restrain their victims. Also, if you tape the arms and legs down, like a mummy, I suppose it's easier to carry the body to the dumpster or wherever. Does this concern you that it might be getting a bad reputation? --- Laurel Ahlbrecht
Sure, Duct Tape in the wrong hands can be a dangerous weapon, then again, so can an electric egg beater.

Vacation Salvation on a Roll
TRUE STORY: Our vacation would have been a bust if not for, you guessed it, DUCT TAPE. We live in Oklahoma and we were on our way to Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvania for our vacation. Not even halfway there, we lost our BRAND NEW bearing buddy on our trailer (to hold our stuff). We noticed it was gone when we stopped for gas. That's when I said, "Where are the Duct Tape Guys when we need them?" Luckily, we found a Wally World (Wal-Mart to those who are not hip to the lingo) and bought a new bearing buddy and a SUPER BIG roll of duct tape, because, after all, who's to say that the new bearing buddy wouldn't bite the dust, too. We generously taped both bearing buddies on, and safely made it to Pennsylvania and back and didn't lose one item of our "stuff" thanks to DUCT TAPE. --- Billie and John Woods
Gig Tape
At the end of a gig (dance party or corporate affair or concert) we start pulling up our leads and removing the temporary furnishings.. The tape needs to be collected because dangerous things can happen (such as carrying an LCD projector worth more than you are and your foot suddenly gets stuck to the carpet), so we bunch it up into a ball. We are all pretty tired, and out of our minds in one way or another, so we unwind with a game of Duct Tape Soccer. The added fun is that the ball is still quite sticky so you often have to kick it off the wall, installations, someone's butt,,, whatever. --- Thanks to: Rasheed Abdal-Aziz, Sydney Australia
Alternator Tape
I have a 80' GMC Suburban. This thing is used as our hunting and towing rig. Nothing on this machine works...without duct tape. One of our most recent uses for the product, would have to be to repair the charging system of the rig. We needed a new alternator for our beast, so we went to the store. The auto parts counter offered us two choices of alternator. Naturally, we assumed the one needed was the bigger one, and brought it home. The alternator was way too big. Did we take it back? Heck no! With the use of a crow bar and a hammer, we managed to wedge the alternator into the position under the smaller bracket. We only then realized that the old alternator bolt to hold it to the bracket was too small. Duct tape to the rescue! We used the crowbar again to hoist the mass of a charger to the point of tension on the belt. We then took a strip of tape and rolled it into its self. We then inserted the strand of Duct tape into the whole of the alternator and wrapped the tape around the mounting bracket. So, we used out duct tape to hold up out alternator where the bolt was too small and the alternator was too big. We haven't had a problem since and it's been over two years. --- Bobby Johnson, Beaverton, OR
Range Finder Tape
While touring in Russia, I inadvertently broke the range finder (auto focus) cover on my camera. I always carry duct tape in my suitcase. It was a delicate procedure, but I was able to use the tape and fasten the cover back on the camera in a way that would not block the range finder. That was one year ago. The tape is still holding. --- GL4RD@...
Regatta Tape
We were in a Sailing Regatta for disabled people in Montreal. Two of the boats got rammed during a race. We duct taped a hole 2 feet x 1 foot in the side of the boat and continued to use the boat for the next race. No leakage and no loss of performance. [It] kept it short but you can imagine the doubters in the audience since a high level quadriplegic was sailing the specially designed boat. --- Norm Lamarre
“The Club” for Raybans
Duct tape can be used as an anti-theft device. I bought a pair of very expensive Rayban sunglasses. However, I sometimes have a habit of leaving my glasses in their case and losing them. I didn't want anyone to swap my glasses so I used a few strips of Duct Tape. I deliberately did a poor job of taping so that many of the edges of the tape were left exposed so that anyone trying to pick it up the wrong way would get their hands all sticky. No one has ever stolen them. I've accidentally left them behind a couple of time and they were always there when I got back. Of course, I guess that might also be because the case was stuck to the table so that they couldn't pick it up. It worked at any rate. --- Chris "Rowdy" Yates
Yard Sale Tape
I stumbled across a great use - yard sale signs! Not to hang them but to make them. I used the shiny dryer duct tape to make the arrows on my yard sale signs (large ones with the address and small ones out of posterboard scraps with just the duct tape arrows). They were great! The shiny arrows are eye catching and I didn't use up all my black marker filling in those arrows!! I did outline the tape arrows- but that was pure artistic endeavor. --- Deanna Sears

Don’t forget that duct tape makes excellent price tag material for your sale items, too. Use different colors of tape to mark different families' items - helpful when dividing up the money.
Furniture Leveling Tape
My last apartment was built prior to WWI, My present house completed the summer of 1941, and in both enough settling had occurred that the floors slope and have odd bumps that really screw up the furniture. For various pieces I have made custom shims to go under the sides or legs. I can build them up to whatever depth necessary, and they're non-slip. --- Jennifer Gorman, Honolulu, HI

Jim’s Aunt Eileen used the same technique to build up the heel of her right shoe (her shorter leg).
Anti-Giggle Tape
In the movie Star Wars there was a scene where Carrie Fisher (Leia) had to walk really quickly and the outfit she was wearing she couldn't wear a bra, so to keep her from distracting everybody she had to be taped down, under her clothes and then untaped at the end of the shoot (ouch). --- Jim Moore

May the Tape be with you!
Rock and Roll Tape
Rock and Roll will never die. It just gets "patched up" with Duck Tape. I've gone to gigs and forgotten an amp, or a microphone, heck we forgot the drummer once...but I've NEVER left without the tape. Duct tape performs the following critical functions for most major rock artists:

1. Fix blown speakers. Here are the technical secrets to getting the ultimate distorted guitar sound--from Jimmy Page to Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen...you name it. As soon as you acquire a new amp, follow these procedures carefully: First, stick the head of a guitar into the paper cone of a speaker, bending it in in the middle. Then actually poke a hole in the paper closer to the outside edge. This simulates the first 3 days of actual road use.
Now--use the sticky side of some Duct Tape to PULL the dent back out. Then use the SAME piece (furred with speaker paper so it sticks a little more loosely--this gives inaudible but important 'buzz'--and conserves duct tape) to cover the hole. Try as they will, manufacturers will usually admit there is absolutely no way to digitally duplicate the beautiful tone of a Duct-repaired guitar amp.

2. Microphone cables. Microphone cables are not designed for Rock use. They "short out" right where they connect to the mic. So you MUST Duct Tape the cable to the microphone. This is also a safety precaution. In a few sad cases, before Robert Plant learned this, he actually LAUNCHED his mic into the sky when he trusted a non-Duct-Tape reinforced connection, and tried that nifty "swing it around and around" move.

2a. The little clips that hold a mic to a mic stand snap. Duct Tape don't snap. For mics that don't get picked up by the singer (drum mics, amp mics, etc.) replace the stupid little black clip with about 30 wraps of tape.

3. Most good concert insurance riders specify "all electric wiring shall be Duct Taped to the floor". This obviously is required to prevent pulling out the plug and silencing an amplifier. No one cares if people trip and fall.

4. Wrap a little Duct Tape, reversed--sticky side out, on the guitarists mic stand. Then stick extra guitar picks on it so he can look cool--throwing a pick to a cutie in the audience and quickly
replacing it with one from the supply sticking handily on the mic stand. Someone actually created and sells a GIZMO to serve this function. But it isn't sticky. And gizmos get lost--but THE TAPE is ALWAYS there.

5. Sometimes there is no way to get a mic where needed for recording other than to TAPE it. Every quality recording studio has mics suspended from the ceiling--Duct Tape holding the cable so it is just the right height to get the right room ambiance.

6. Emergency drum stick repair--or smarter, and more proactive, drum stick reinforcement (similar to what you do to a hockey stick).

7. Equipment case reinforcement. Musicians beating the crap out of their guitar cases and those boxes used for cables and drums always repair them with Duct Tape. This is the historical origin of those slick aluminum finish briefcases you see now. Musicians were carrying cases wrapped in Duct Tape, and business people wanted to look like musicians so they got shiny silver briefcases...

8. Some venues do not allow the artists to be SEEN with alcohol onstage. Careful taping, and there's no way to tell a Bud from a Pepsi.

9. Drums slide around--and drummers look stupid when they go to smash that Cymbal for the ending and miss. Most drums therefore get set up on a carpet. But the carpet can slide. If the drummer is on a platform, this can be disastrous. I have seen a drummer slowly creep forward,
then crash over the edge. So what you do is Duct Tape the carpet to the floor. One drum manufacturer put SPIKES on bottoms of all their drums, in an attempt to eliminate this procedure. But they're expensive drums.

10. Set lists. Set lists must be strategically placed around stage, so everyone knows what song to do next. They're on the sides of amps, on the floor, sometimes on a drum head... While this could theoretically be done another way, Duct Tape is the standard method. It also discourages fans from grabbing a set list and spoiling the surprise.

I did not make any of this up. --- thanks to Michael Gilbert
Cover Your ___ Tape
I deliver chinese food and one night at the beginning of my shift I snagged my shorts on a on a fence and ripped an "L" shaped hole about six inches long (my ___ was hanging out). I took my shorts off went to my trunk, pulled out a roll of duct tape and taped the inside. I figured this would be the last time I wore these shorts, well I had forgotten about them and a few days later their they were in my drawer washed, dried, and folded, that was three months ago and I'm wearing them now as I write this letter. I figure they have been washed atleast 15-20 times . --- Sean McAfee
Pipe Hanger Tape
While finishing my basement, I ran out of the metal strips used to support overhead water pipes and heating vents. I folded a strip of duct tape down the middle (sticky sides against each other) and nailed the 2 ends into the ceiling rafters. Works just as good and costs less! --- Gus Miller
Radiator Hose Tape
I was driving the back roads from Charleston, SC to Florence, SC to visit my girlfreind, back in 1983. My engine tempature began to rise and steam was coming out from under the hood. I pulled into a small country store, opened the hood and found a busted radiator hose. I went in to ask where the nearest auto parts store was. I was told it was in the next town 30 miles away. Down hearted I went to call my girlfriend from the payphone, when I noticed a roll of duct tape on the shelf. I thought what the heck. $1.50 later I was toolin’ down the road and made it all the way to Florence. Duct tape saved the day. --- Ken Stech
Wetsuit on a Roll
When scuba diving in a wetsuit (as opposed to a dry suit, which is kind of one-piece), I tape around my wrists and ankles so that there are four less places for water to seep into the suit. Of course, the object of a wetsuit is to admit water, which your body then warms and keeps warm. But in cold waters, it's nice to run wide bands of tape around wrists and ankles to keep water entry and exchange to a minimum. Just a few turns around the tops of gloves and booties really helps. --- Steve Bauer
Tree Tape
After our most recent ice storm this past winter, we mended our broken trees with DUCT TAPE......also had to mend one that my friend backed over, also!!! All trees are doing well, thank you. --- Ann Cash
Duct Tape ID
I work at a Nuclear power plant. To gain access to the site, we must have a reflective ID card attached to our car's rear view mirrors facing the window. The problem is that when the mirror is adjusted it swings to the left and the card swings to the right. The security guard has difficulty seeing it until we are almost on top of him. The solution: unhook the card from the mirror and duct tape it flat to the window. Now I don't have to slow down for the card to be seen. The guard waves me on before I get to the guard house. --- C. Abbott
Dirt Bike Duct Tape
We ride dirt bikes in the Pacific Northwest. Often the foliage gets quite thick and riding gear is reduced to threads. Instead of buying new flashy gear, these guys go through 1/4 roll of Duct Tape every ride to hold everything together. This is not a mock up. This is their pre-ride ritual and I finally caught them on film. --- STASI_VAILLANCOURT@HP... See photo at Duct Tape Real Uses (click here)
Duct Tape Tire Fix
I was rolling down Speedway Blvd. (in Tucson, Arizona) in my extremely illegal Chrysler Cordoba, tags are from 9/98 and are issued from Pennsylvania. All of the sudden ~~BooooM~~ thump-thump-thump. So I pulled off the road, and to my amazement the tire is still inflated, but there is a huge mass of rubber hanging loose. Can't leave the car in a parking lot for fear the police will tow it to a junk yard. So I telephoned a friend and we took a trip to Wally World (Wal-Mart). I quickly purchased a roll of Duct Tape and we went back to the beast. After removing the tire I made several rounds over the entire tire, then put it back on and proceeded to drive almost five miles back to my house. After parking the car I checked the tire and noticed that not only was it still fully inflated, but the Duct Tape was still intact. I had to cut the Duct Tape off of the tire to take the attached pictures. This has made me a true believer! --- Kenneth LeMaster See photo at Duct Tape Real Uses (click here)
Duct Tape Gal Reports In:
I use duct tape for a lot of things. where ever I go, it goes. I've used it to patch my tent when it got a little close to the fire.(no one was hurt!) I kick box and sometimes my wraps don't work well so I duct tape my knuckles.I've repaired the braking system and shock system on my bike after a nasty spill. I've covered my school books. It is ideal for that cuz it doesn't rip like paper. I've repaired my backpack. I've repaired my knee pads, the net and added an extra number to my jersy in volleyball. I've duct taped my ski boots together and once fixed my friends broken pole. I threw my watch down the stairs and it currently has the casing and strap secured with duct tape. I fixed my sandles and the back of my swim goggles. Oh yeah I did my French speech on it. --- Katie (age 15)

You are now officially dubed “The Duct Tape Gal-O-Many-Uses!” Aren’t you glad they don’t put any instructions on the duct tape rolls?

Anti-Ant Tape
I use duct tape to keep the ants off of my humming bird feeder. Every time I change the sugar water I put some duct tape (sticky side out) on the string holding the feeder. That way the ants can't climb over the tape to get to the sugar water. If I don't put duct tape on the string the ants take over the feeder. --- Dennis Miller

Remote Control Control Tape
I always fall asleep with the remote in my hand, so I always lost it in my bed at night. Finally, I thought of a way to rid myself of that problem...I duct taped it to my headboard!! --- Tom Gill

Three winters ago several young hooligans were sledding on the hill behind our house when they plowed over my favorite white pine tree snapping off the top two feet (alas it was only 4 feet tall then). I used duct tape to seal the "wound" on the stub of the trunk in the hopes of saving the tree. Lo and behold it is now five feet high, robust with lots of new growth, and with a new crown and theduct tape still is covering the stub. --- Stephen J Savoie

One night, my dad's friend was coming home from an out of town trip. Eighty miles from home, in the middle of nowhere, his car threw a fan belt. He immediately got some bailing wire from his trunk, doubled it up and cut it to length. Then using duct tape, sticky side out, he wraped it around the bailing wire fan belt, put it in place and it held all of the way home. In the morning, it took a torch to get it off! --- Dan Aldrich
We’ve also heard of people making a fanbelt without the bailing wire - they just braided three lengths of folded over duct tape together and it lasted 1000 miles!

Use the phrase “Duct Tape.” instead of “Hello” when you answer the phone. It will automatically filter out the riff-raff and telemarketers, and tell serious callers that you are a Duct Tape User and create an immediate bond of unity. --- Steven Most
Steven: That’s the best idea we’ve heard all day, and it’s already 6:40am!

Prom Tape
Prom season coming too quickly, with your wallet empty? Just do as I did for my senior prom: I made my tux totally out of black duct tape. And to save a little more money, make your date's corsage out of colored duct tape.---Gregg Colman

Check out our other prom couples at our duct tape fashion pages.

A few days ago i went on a biking trip with a few buddies. In the middle of the trail, about 50km away from all civilization, my friend's bike seat broke right off! Out came the duct tape, and the newly fixed seat lasted the rest of the trip! --- Stephen Carter

Check out Jim and Tim’s Duct Tape bike seat fix at the Duct Tape Guy’s Caption Contest

This is just an idea - probably not too safe, but you could make duct tape sticky-side-up seat covers for your car - you probably won’t need seat belts anymore. --- the Duct Tape Guy

I belong to the Buckeye Trail Marching Warriors in Old Washington, Ohio. I have the best real story using Duct Tape. I play the Bari Sax. That’s the really big sax. It will scare you to death. This sax is over 50 years old and made of brass. Well brass in time will soften and brake in half. Thats what happned to this bari sax. The nick broken in half we could not solder it back together and couldn't buy a new one becouse they cost $4,700 brand new. So I thought for a moment and said “I got it!” I got a some wire and a WHOLE LOT OF DUCT TAPE. I DUCT the neck together before every show and every time i played. That was 3 to 4 times a day for 2 years. --- JW Casterline

I raise and train horses and sometimes we have to wrap a poltice around a horse's foot. There are commercial 'rubber boots' on the market at great cost but these rarely fit or stay on and often rub large sores around the horse's 'ankles'. I make custom boots on these occasions out of duct tape. These fit the horse as they are made on the hoof and are durable enough that the horse can walk around and not lose the medication. --- Eve Dexter

They weren’t horsing around when they invented duct tape.

I'm a poor college kid, so I need to save money anyway I can. I have been driving a '79 buick for a few years and slowly but surely the body has started to fall apart on it. The roof has taken the worst hit and has completely rusted out. I decided to hang on to the car and in order to drive it on the highway I used duct-tape on the front to hold the roof on. I used almost a whole roll of tape across the front of the windsheild and roof to hold it on. So far the duct-tape has held up great, even making it four hours to Mardi Gras and back!--- Eric Larose

Some day they’ll get smart and make cars entirely out of duct tape to begin with.

We use Duct Tape at the ranch during lambing to correct birth defects where the feet turn under on lambs. We also use it as a cast for broken legs. Best medical equipment we have found.--- Ralph M. Poulsen

I believe Jim’s parents used that hint on him when he was a newborn.

I duct taped a pair of pants, they are really cool looking, but I feel like a baked potato when I wear them, plus they are kinda hard to unbutton because of the tape, but they are well worth it. --- A-me Yeah, it does get hot... but what a great Idea for your next Halloween Party! Just duct tape over your clothes and go as a baked potato!

Quite a few years ago I was about to board a Hughes Air West flight out of San Francisco and I happened to look out a window and observed a technician putting duct tape over the outside of a window trim. I knew then that duct tape had to be something very special to withstand the internal pressures at altitude. Should one wonder if the reason they went belly up was because they ran out of duct tape? --- Jack Terman We believe Howard Hughes had his body mummified with duct tape at his request.

While snowmobiling in the wilds of Northern Wisconsin the stutter bumps became too much for the average sports bra ... duct tape came to the rescue as a great alternative (outside the snowbibs - of course - we're tough in WI but not that tough), and a roll has been kept in my sled
every since. --- Jil Strassman Sounds like something from Fredricks of Hardwarewood.

I work at a small hospital. One day a doctor came into the department and bent over to pick an item up off of the floor. He heard the all to terrifying sound of cloth ripping as the seat of his pants gave way. In order to save him from humiliation we duct taped his pants and no one noticed. --- CarinMSRD@.. To avoid this embarassment from happening, Jim and me usually just duct tape over our entire wardrobe. Plus you never have to wash your clothes, you just hose yourself down!

We are members of the local cactus society and have found several uses for duct tape. The main reason we carry a roll with us is that it is very handy to have if you mistakenly grab the wrong opuntia (prickly pear and beaver tail cactus) The opuntia not only have spines, they also have glochids. Glochids are small, hairy, very sharp and barbed spines that can be finer than human hair. Grabbing or backing into a "Bunny Ears" cactus (opuntia microdaisy) will leave you in extreme misery. The point of contact will look like it is growing white, yellow or red hair. Tweezers are useless. Tryin to rub them out is not recommended unless you are really into leather, whips and chains. We have found that several applications of applying and ripping off duct tape will remove most of the glochids. As well as most of the affected skin. --- Stan & Ann Russ Yup, duct tape can get you out of a lot of “sticky” situations!

I ALSO USE DUCK TAPE FOR CHECKING TO SEE IF MY TIRES ARE INFLATED PROPERLY, THE OWNERS MANUAL IS GREAT, BUT AFTER DIFFERENT TIRES ARE PUT ON IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY SOMETIMES ON THE CORRECT AIR PRESURE, SO PUT A STRIP OF DUCK TAPE ACROSS EACH TIRE, IT IT WEARS IN THE CENTER, TO MUCH AIR PRESURE, IF IT WEARS EVENLY ON EACH EDGE MORE THAN THE CENTER, THE PRESURE IS TO LOW. IF IT WEARS ON THE INSIDE ONLY, OR OUTSIDE ONLY, YOU NEED AN ALLIGNMENT. IF IT WEARS EVENLY ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE TIRE IS INFLATED CORRECTLY, AND IT DON'T NEED AN ALLIGNMENT. THIS REALLY WORKS. --- THOMAS WAYNE BELL.

(Thomas obviously has his caps lock key duct taped down.)

I was building props for a show - Alice in wonderland. The director didn't want plain old lawn flamingoes for croquet mallets, she wanted something more original. I constructed two fully functional and durable flamingo mallets out of duct tape and a little papier mache. After that success, I was hooked. Since then I've used duct tape for sculpture of all sorts (cheap! Durable! Malleable!) a woman, a troll, etc... I've made a backpack entirely out of duct tape (including the drawstring and clasp) hats, a raincoat and a pair of red galoshes... which I took to Europe with me. Everyone loved them! when I went snowboarding for the first time, I didn't have any appropriate snow clothing, so I constructed snow pants out of plastic bags and duct tape. Every time my "pants" blew out as I crashed repeatedly, I just whipped out my trusty roll of duct tape and made repairs. I got some funny looks, but I remained dry and warm and had a great time. I wove a hammock out of double backed duct tape strips, which has worked like a dream - very comfortable. I started making greeting cards with colored duct tape and a sharpie. They were a hit! I've reinforced my soles of my favorite shoes and constructed my Halloween costume last year with various pieces of second hand clothing held together w/ duct tape (I was a djinn). I currently have a huge backlog of duct tape requests from converted devotees - a sports jacket, 5 back packs - in different hues, boots, 2 hammocks and 3 more dummies which I refused to do if they were going to use them to abuse the car pool lane. Duct tape rules!!! --- Regan Lane See, if they had put instructions on the roll, you would still be just using duct tape on duct work. Nice goin’ Regan!

One time, two of my friends and myself decided we wanted to make a hovercraft, because they are really cool, and in a lot of movies. There was only one problem...we are high schoolers and not to mention incredibly cheap. So never the less there was a very small budget. Some people (like those close-minded parents) were skeptical that we could make such a machine, not to mention without any nails and the like. We took this as a challenge. With only two shot-vacs, some plywood, and around 3 or 4 roles of duct tape our hovercraft was built, and it worked! We got 5 people in the air at once on it, a weight in excess of 700 pounds! For this amazing feat, we got school credit, and were allowed to take time off of school to tour the neighborhood and local hardware stores demonstrating the wonders of duct tape and our incredible flying machine. We even got free donuts and were bought lunch by our teacher. All you can eat. We only had one problem - a rip in our lifting lining. Fortunately we had our roles of duct tape with us as always, and a couple strips and a few minutes later we were back in the air. --- Brendon Ulen And, there’s the proof, you skeptics... Duct tape CAN get you free food! Good work guys!

Another Cactus Testimonial: In the Arizona desert we have many sticker bushes, like cactus. On hikes it's easy, almost inevitable, for hikers to brush up against a cactus and receive a batch of spines on their pants leg, or worse, bare flesh. Tweezers work to remove the larger ones, but not the many small spines, especially from cholla and prickly pear cacti, that are almost invisible. You know they're still there because you can still feel them poking you. To remove the tiny spines, dab duct tape against your skin or clothes. --- Leanna Anderson
Earlier in the year, the remote control unit to my automatic garage door opener was run over by 3 pickup trucks and a Volkswagen. I picked up all the pieces, I used one strip of duct tape about 3 inches long to tape what I felt as the most importatnt pieces of circuitry together. Thanks to the miracle of duct tape, the opener works fine now, even without the other pieces. --- Ben Allen
My roommate and i use a roll of duct tape to hold back our curtains. --- Jamie Auriemma
Great idea, Jamie! That way you can use the duct tape even when you are not using it, and it's always handy!
Last summer we pulled into a campground too late to replace the glass globe, busted clear apart into 4 or 5 pieces, on our coleman gas latern. I ducttaped the glass together, took it outside and lit the latern. It smoked for a minute until the tape turned brown and then fairly clear. Although we treated it gingerly, probably unnecessarily, it worked fine for a couple of days until we could locate a new globe. --- Jim Hanks, Durango, Colorado

We were going Ice fishing and didn't have a shanty. We put ten plexiglass beer signs like hang in front of a bar in the back of the truck. We duct taped them together on the lake. It was so warm inside that we took of our insulator socks and duct taped them to our beer cans as cooler cups. --- Ken Glasheen

I used duct tape to hold the glass cover onto the Corningware casserole dish as I transported it to a church dinner. --- Stephanie Giunta

I'm in high school and ran for STUCO V.P. (Student Council Vice President) I made my posters out of duct tape, like the writing and stuff. Then, instead of using stickers saying the normal boring "Vote for Amy"... I gave out pieces of duct tape for people to wear. It was great. Everyone loved the idea and wore their tape with pride. My slogan was "Duct Tape can be used for anything" People were coming up to me telling me they fixed their bookbags and sweaters with the tape. It was tons 'o' fun! --- Amy Willott

Plantar Wart Remover My son developed the largest plantar's wart on his heel, but didn't tell me until 2 weeks before football practice started his senior year. The dermatologist told us she could surgical remove it taking a large portion of his heel and taking 6 weeks to heal or we could use duct tape. He applied one strip over his heel daily, removing and reapplying after his shower. The duct tape took one layer of skin at a time, painlessly. It took about 6 months but worked great. We went to the playoffs with him as our quarterback. --- Patty Zahradka

Tim: Here in Springtown, Texas, a small town, the parents of the senior class each year raise money to throw the kids an all night alcohol-free after prom party. They play vegas type games to win fake money to buy REAL prizes -- tvs, vcrs... We call it Project Celebration. ANYHOO.. my daughter is a senior this next year (class of '00) and I have an idea for a fundraiser. I would like your opinion on whether it could work.
"DUCT TAPE SATURDAY IN SPRINGTOWN, TEXAS!"
Duct tape art show
Duct tape olympics
"I fixed it with duct tape" contest
Duct tape fashion show
Duct tape technology or (Duct tape in the Millenium)
Showing school spirit with duct tape (we are the porcupines)

Am I delusional, have I watched too much Red Green? (Miss you guys on Discovery, but read your books for my Duct Tape Guys fix.) Whaddya think? --- Teresa Ivey
Great idea! Send photos!

Before i hang my shower curtain up on those rings, i take duct tape and put it along the top on both sides. then i poke holes where the rings go though and my curtain outlasts any abuse. also When i took my grandson to have his picture taken his pants were too long. i folded them up and ducted them to the right length. i also have done that with my own hems and drapes. --- Donna Lucia

As a single guy trying to scrape toget all the money I can, I often find myself accidentally spending the money I've set aside for rent. This month, I've put all my rent money in an envelope and layered it with about twenty strips of Duct Tape all around the outside of the package. I labeled it "RENT, DO NOT SPEND" with a Sharpie marker. I then Duct Taped the whole bundle to the underside of my mattress until rent day. I have no idea how I'm going to open the envelope when it comes to rent day, I may just mail the whole thing to the landlord and let him worry about it. But at least I know my money is safe!! --- Joel B.

hi my name is Sun and I found that with the fashion trend changing as it is even now.... using duct tape on your clothes as reflectors is great. People sell it for like 80 dollars so why not just use it and take it off later as the fashion goes away. --- Sun Lim
About 20 - 25 years ago we were forced, by extreme thunder storms, to make an emergency landing on a highway in the Petrified Forest section of Arizona. The Highway was not very wide and, as we came to a bridge area, a post was just high enough Not to be able to get over on short notice and the wing on our little Mooney Bird was damaged. The next day my husband took a piece of wood, did a little whittling and out came the duct tape.
All the way back to California I nervously watched that duct tape patch! It worked perfectly and safely--if the FAA had gone for it would have saved us over $3000.00 for repairs. --- GMMAPAT@...
Rumor has it no plane leaves the ground up in Alaska without a roll of duct tape on board!
My sister's dalmation jumps up onto the couch and other furniture. She bought a special low-voltage device to lay on the furniture and give the dog a mild shock, which worked great - except the dog would simply move to another chair. Since the strip was grey and looked a lot like duct tape, I made a duct tape version without the electricty, etc. It works great - the dog avoids the duct tape version! In addition, most people can see the difference and sit on the duct tape one without fear. --- Bob O'Connor
I have done this, and it really works!
1. Take an old pair of smelly shoes, you know, the ones the a screaming "throw me away!"
2. Take out the soles (the smelliest part of the shoes).
3. Cover the soles with duct tape.
4. Insert the soles back in.
By doing this, not only does the tape cover the smell, but also prevents
future smell. It also eliminates the need for socks, which are a pain to deal with.

P.S. My brother wrapped his feet in duct tape once, and he didn't need socks for a week, until my Mom made him take off the tape. --- Kyle Petersen Gee, I wish you had sent us that idea a week earlier, Tim could have saved his garbage man from fainting, falling into the street, and getting his leg run over by his partner!
Theatrical duct tape use: The sheet togas on the actors kept on falling apart. No problem--they came to me and the other techs for help and you can bet that they didn't have the problem again! --- Erica Mignone
Our friends are always laughing at us because we use duct tape to fix things. So as a joke last christmas I made bowes & ribbons out of duct tape. They never even noticed till we pointed it out. The shiny grey stuff wins again!!!! --- Vincent Orme Yup, wrap all of your gifts in duct tape for the gift that says, “Open me eventually!”
When I was in high school, one of my friends decided to contribute to the united way charity drive. His way of contributing? he sold pieces of duct tape for 1$ and purchasers were able to stick him to one of the pillars in the school cafeteria. Quite a creative way to give to charity, eh?! --- Leigh Chapman Check out Duct Tape Headline News for a story about a High School Principal in Dallastown, PA who did the same thing and got himself into a bit of a sticky situation.
My idea: If you don't have a band for your watch wrap some duct tape around your wrist sticky side up, and just put the clock on the duct tape and you've got yourself a new watch band. --- Roy Tatum
We use duct tape to hold our sousaphones (marching tubas) together in our marching band at Staunton River High School. The school can't afford new ones so we have to improvise. It works great. We live by the philosophy "If You Can't Duct It Chuck It" --- Mark "MARTER" Carter and Josh "TATER" Goode, Bedford, VA
I belong to a medieval recreation society, and we use duct tape for everything. It is called the SCA www.sca.org and we use it to cover our rattan swords that we hit each other with, we use it to repair our armour, we use it to repair just about anything. --- Quentin and Lorraine Brown
I have a 16' aluminum jon boat that really needed painting, except I couldn't get the paint to stick, so I went out and bought 4 rolls of duct tape and taped the entire boat. It looks very good and original, and it doesn't leak around the rivets any more!! --- Hamilton Gills
I have a story about the best case of duct tape use, that I have ever been involved in. We were at our Odyssey of the Mind competition, and some how the guitar used for skit was broken, it had a big crack in it, and was coming apart, we had to fix it, quickly, we were about to go on in a matter of minutes. Someone on our team had the ingenious idea of using duct tape. It worked! The guitar was fixed, and sound better than ever. --- Renee Behe We’d like to thank all Odyssey of the Mind coaches everywhere for making duct tape a staple of their skits! --- Tim and Jim, the Duct Tape Guys
Our children and grandchildren were excited about going tubing down the river, so we grabbed the 4 innertubes and started airing them up. Two of the tubes had holes in them and you can imagine the disappointment on the faces because I had no patches and 40 miles from town. Someone suggested duct tape over the hole. Tried it and it didn't hold long because of the air pressure. Someone else suggested bubblegum, piece of cardboard with duct tape wrapped over it. Well it worked for the full four hours in the water and everyone had a great time. Our hats off to good ole American ingenuity, or something like that. --- Jim Thompson
My idea: If you don't have a band for your watch wrap some duct tape around your wrist sticky side up, and just put the clock on the duct tape and you've got yourself a new watch band. --- Roy Tatum
We use duct tape to hold our sousaphones (marching tubas) together in our marching band at Staunton River High School. The school can't afford new ones so we have to improvise. It works great. We live by the philosophy "If You Can't Duct It Chuck It" --- Mark "MARTER" Carter and Josh "TATER" Goode, Bedford, VA
A couple in our church are going through a divorce. They have to divide all assets equally. One of the "assets" is a
large water cooler jar filled with coins. And I DO mean filled! The court ordered all of it counted and split between the two parties. Visiting with her and her two kids one day, she told me of her problem. She was in contempt of court because they had not counted the change yet. (The jar was cracked so they were afraid to move it, and her husband said he didn't want it broken.) She said they had tried using a shop-vac, but it didn't work. I asked her if she had any duct tape and a dowel rod. She did. I covered the end of the rod in duct tape with the sticky side out, then stuck it into the jar. Out came about 10¢ in
pennies. The kids laughed at me, but 10 minutes later they had their own "sticky sticks" and were grubbing out change too! Now no one has to go to jail!! THANKS, Duct Tape!!! --- Bruce Goosman
On a recent flight from Austin, the flight was delayed due to the latch on an over head bin being broken.

I was joking with my traveling companion about a commercial that is playing in our area where a sales person tells Jerry Jones that duct tape can help solve his football teams problems "Hey Jerry, Having problems patching holes in your defensive line? . . . Use Duct Tape."

I joked "Hey, Airlines, trouble with your plane not taking off on time? Use Duct Tape."

About thirty seconds later a maintenance guy shows up with the biggest roll of duct tape I had ever seen, tapes the bin shut, and we proceeded on our flight. --- Dennis Daniel, Round Rock, Texas
At my dorm room there isn't much space so i had to hang my 365 days of duct tape calendar on the wall. A couple strips of duct tape and the job was done... until today. The cheap glue the factory used to stick the pages to the plastic backing gave. Once again duct tape to the rescue. --- Jack Griffin Ya, sorry - we are having trouble finding a printer who binds with duct tape. You found the correct solution! --- Jim and Tim
Idea for a cheap pair of pants that will never wear out, and are easily repairable. Make them out of duct tape. No, do not cover your pants in duct tape, make them. --- Nate Kuehnert Sounds like you discovered the secret to Jim’s disco pants! Party on dude! --- Jim and Tim
A couple years ago while traveling to Oklahoma from Hermiston, OR, we made it a point to through in a roll of blue duct tape. The blue went nicely with our Harley Davidson Blue Knight Special. We expected all the rational uses for the stuff, fix the torn tent. Tie the dog out. Fix a flat. and the rest of the usual stuff. Nope, this August trip had us in Yellowstone and yes-sir-ree it was snowing in the morning when we got up.

I used the duct tape over the crash bars to make a set of DT fairing lowers to keep my feet from freezing. This modification on HD had the second affect of causing the warm air from the engine to blow up around our legs and help keep us warm. Best to you and keep up the good "work". --- Rick Hart
We recently went to church and noticed that one of the altar servers was not present. When we got inside, we noticed that one of the regulars wasn't there, either (we thought). After we had taken our places, the "regular" (who is almost a foot shorter than the alter server) came out of the kitchen wearing perfectly fitting vestments that belong to the Server. Behind him was another congregant with a big smile and a roll of duct tape. The tape held beautifully all through the service. --- Andrew Noble
Proof once again, that duct tape is heaven sent! --- Jim and Tim


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