Is there anything duct tape can't do?

And yet they refuse to acknowledge my coat-hanger abortion. Absurd!

not true... duck tape would help it stay on.. just hurt like hell when you took the tape off..

but, duct tape goes to crap when it touches water.

I'm sure 3M (or my friend Wes, me made his own duct tape pants) could make a duct tape condom.

Howbaout making some kiddie-sized wrist restraints and mouth gags for restaurants and airplane rides?

myellott Is there anything duct tape can't do?

I can think of two things off the top of my head...

1) Repair fuel lines.
2) Seal ductwork.

=Smidge=

farked

Link goes no where.

Somebody call Red Green...

Walljasper: Howbaout making some kiddie-sized wrist restraints and mouth gags for restaurants and airplane rides?


Yeah! Preferably with the sticky side in and really airtight, to prevent any harm coming to the little dearies.

Yes, awesome link.

I remember when my friend Carin made a duct tape "Prom Dress" and wore it to a club one night. She got a lot of attention. Course she also got a lot of lame "Stuck on you" jokes from guys trying to get into her duct tape.

Farked.

How much of an invention can this be? I've been using duct tape on heel blisters and such for years.

Sandwyrm: heheh! ;-}

Duct tape has become a bad cliche, a parody of itself. It is not a good general purpose tape, and (ask any HVAC tech) it is definitely not suitable for ducts. Please, relegate duct tape and duct tape joke to the same place that "[blank] from hell" and "where's the beef" joke went about 20 years ago.

Nobody say anything bad about duct tape. As we speak, the phone line to my house that I knocked down when cutting limbs yesterday is now being held together with, yep, duct tape. Its all I had.

© Oh, and it would've been nice to have a working link

shait we have been doing this forever when were out and dont have a band-aid.

little duct tape and some kinda cloth or napkin or paper towel or TP and your good to go.

gotta love the duct tape

ignoramus, while I fail to see what that had to do with the topic, I still salute you.

zerplex: little duct tape and some kinda cloth or napkin or paper towel or TP and your good to go.

Only candyasses use anything with the duct tape.

Five Minute Standup: ignoramus, while I fail to see what that had to do with the topic, I still salute you.

Its all about finding ways to use common items and apply them to practical uses around the house. Like those pesky nicotine patches that keep falling off... add a nail gun! Now, they aint goin nowhere!

Believe it or not, duct tape is a viable medical tool. In an emergency, it can be used as a sort of stitches to hold together a gash, like office_despot said it can help prevent blisters from rubbing, and it heals warts by drying out your skin.

However, if you apply duct tape to the wound itself, you're asking for pain. Knew a guy who cut himself with a box cutter, covered it with duct tape, and tore the cut up even worse trying to take the tape off when he went to the hospital.

office_despot have i seen you around tokyo with a shorter bald italian?

who hasn't made a band aid out of duct tape the trick is to stop the bleeding first.

if the link is dead, read it at gizmodo

We've been selling them in my department (82) at Wal-Mart for a while now. We've been hanging the clip strips in hardware, automotive and sporting goods, because that's where the manly men are.

Heres a link with a picture (pops)

/department 82 = all femail
//pun

That page may be farked, so I humbly present these trippy bacon bandages.

they will be in trouble if they try to patent this.

Every trailor park has prior rights on this one.

Duct taping kids wounds is tradition there.

Shipping tape is way better than duct tape.

/It's clear - You can watch yourself bleed :)

Here's one more 'been doing that for years'!

When I was driving through Mississippi last year some guy on the side of the road was selling duct tape wallets. I decided then and there that I was only stopping for gas in that state.

(rip) YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...

So are they going to sell it in the OTC supplies or over in the hardware supplies???

Yesterday I made a bandage for my son with a napkin and long blades of grass. Didn't even have tape. He was proud of his backwoods band-aid (he's 4).

Duct tape cured my sons plantars warts.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/printinvoker.cfm?objectid=08C67FE8-70A5-4516-8EFDDF2 A7288B530

http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=AN00739

TRY THAT one....

optikeye: You could duct tape your buttchecks closed for protection at band camp.


"The embarrasment he musta felt..."

optikeye
yes. Condoms

You could duct tape your buttchecks closed for protection at band camp.

But not even duct tape could stop a flute.

Man, that would hurt like a farking biatch when you take it off.

If they do that for nicotine patches, I can quit smoking.

Would buttcheeks count as ductwork?

potato_chip_eating_geek
but, duct tape goes to crap when it touches water.

I used duct tape to seal hole in a gutter years ago and it still doesn't leak

Ok, here's my totally TRUE duct tape story.

I got shingles last year and after the nasty sore healed on my side and the nerves started rebuilding I got what it called "post herpetic neuralgia," which is terrible, intense pain in the areas affected by the shingles lesions due to nerve damage. (shingles is caused by the re-activation of the herpes zoster virus you got as a kid that caused your chicken pox)

So, the doctors gave me pain killers and various things for this nerve damage pain, and none of it did squat: every time my shirt or the bed sheets would brush against the area, I'd have to fight to keep from howling in pain.

Thus, being a longtime hiker, I knew about using duct tape to protect damaged skin (blisters from rubbing) against further abrasion, and I decided to completely cover my neuralgia area in duct tape so as to keep it from being touched by anything.

Worked like a charm, and no it didn't hurt to take it off because after a day of using it, I'd just get in the shower and get it wet and it would pretty much fall right off.

So for 4 months after my shingles, I wore a duct-tape dressing around on my side under my clothes and it worked great. The doctors were surprised, but it helped a lot more than all the crap they had given me to ease the pain.

And, BTW, shingles it horrible. Really just horrible.

not interested until they come out with gaff tape bandages... duct tape is teh suck


just sayin'
no slashes
that is all

Real men don't use Band-Aids.....if the wound doesn't require stitches, it'll stop bleeding on its own, eventually.

I just think Cranglesmack Butterwhip doesn't want to admit he was the one who applied duct tape directly to the wound...

This is nothing. I'm a surgeon and I use duct tape instead of sutures. This saves the patient the trouble of returning for follow-up visits. I'm thinking of using it for limb reattachments.

JimmyJones I agree with you 100%

Real men use electrical tape.


No, really. It makes a good seal if you are bleeding and you are working underwater. Regular bandaids just fall off underwater. I don't suppose these duct tape is much better. See, you have to be able to wrap the tape completely around your bleeding appendage so the tape can stick to itself. That's the only way it stays on.

/have some experience bleeding underwater
//used to work with oysters.
///not the Rolex kind

23 Enigma:And, BTW, shingles it horrible. Really just horrible.

quoted for truth++

I hope you recovered quickly!

Captain Cool Sez,



"Too Cool!"

Duct tape band aids, not new.

The sickest use of duct tape I have ever seen, or heard.. was a guy forgot his jock at a big sports tournment. So he duct taped his cup to himself. Kept it in place all day, though removing it I heard was an interesting ordeal.

My girlfriend at the time and I were coming home from the movies. She had just bought a down jacket she loved, and she was horrified to discover that she had been sitting in someone's chewing gum the whole movie!

Thinking fast, I pulled out a Travel Roll of duct tape (see Magellans.com) and proceeded to 'tack' the gum off of the jacket until there was nothing there except a barely visible dark patch (which a dry cleaning later eliminated). I saved the day and guaranteed me some play! Thank you, duct tape!

I'm sure it's been said, but electrical tape is the only way to go. It stops blood and is flexible and waterproof. Great if you work some crappy blue collar job or whatever.

A vote for me is a vote for air conditioned jobs.

Electrical tape is great, I agree with everyone, unless you have sweaty or oily skin. When I cover a wound, the area under gets kind of sweaty, and the adhesive on electrical tape just calls it quits. Duct tape and the cloth band-aids are the way to go.

/submitter
//first slashes
///headline sucked, didn't it?

I've already made those on my own. But in the words of my father, "if the Egyptians had had duct tape, the Sphinx would still have a nose."

FARKED.

Seriously, we can't have another duct tape thread without these guys.

Here's their site:Ducttapeguys.com

They actually have some ties to the Duct brand, so they might not have anything on this story.

/Was a duct tape obsessee for the earlier part of high school. Thanks to those guys and their site, esp. the Refrigerator.
//If you've got duct tape stories or anything, their site's the place for it.
///I've got a fever and the only cure is more slash! Or maybe some duct tape...

Not surprising, duct tape was originally designed to be a waterproof medical tape. They just started marketing it that way!

23 Enigma I'm curious. Did the doctor give you antiviral medication when you figured out you had shingles? It's supposed to lessen the post-herpatic neuralgia. I was lucky enough to miss the neuralgia after mine cleared up, but I had the same effect before the rash appeared. It hurt like 8 biatches on a biatch boat and the doctor couldn't find anything wrong. I realized what it was when the rash appeared and booked it back to the doctor (finally using those microbiology skillz!). I had been using ace bandages to accomplish the same thing you did with duct tape. If my breakout hadn't been all down one leg, I might have tried the tape.

Gaffer Tape is the best. duct tape doesn't even stick in comparison

3M? Bah!

Duct Tape? Bah!

Nashua 357. The one. The only. Accept no substitue.

I'm too drunk / lazy to scroll up and properly quote, but someone mentioned not bandaging wounds.

I was just talking to my fiancee tonight about this - I never, ever bandage or otherwise treat wounds [no Neosporin, etc] unless I'm bleeding profusely. If I am, I bandage them till the bleeding stops, then call it good. I prefer to let my immune system do it's job. The nice part is, my family heals really fast.

/damn you, tasty Guiness, it took waaaay too long to type this

fish-toy:

I started taking acyclovir for my shingles several days into the outbreak, and it seemed to help, but unfortunately I didn't recognize what was wrong until the rash was fully over several large patches on my side and back. Mine didn't hurt much at all when the outbreak was underway, but when the lesions started to heal, and the nerves began to reassemble themselves there, it hurt like hell. Kind of like a combination of having hot oil poured on your skin along with itching.

I'll know better if it ever comes again, and I'll run right away to the doctor for acyclovir, but I was well into the outbreak this past time and it caused me to suffer a lot more than I would have otherwise I'm sure.

It's been almost a year, and I'm STILL having some pain in the area sporadically. I haven't done anything to treat it since I stopped using the duct tape to cover it over, but yes, it was awful, and continues to be an issue almost a year later.

Clavis: My girlfriend at the time and I were coming home from the movies. She had just bought a down jacket she loved, and she was horrified to discover that she had been sitting in someone's chewing gum the whole movie!

Thinking fast, I pulled out a Travel Roll of duct tape (see Magellans.com) and proceeded to 'tack' the gum off of the jacket until there was nothing there except a barely visible dark patch (which a dry cleaning later eliminated). I saved the day and guaranteed me some play! Thank you, duct tape!


Did you know that Zippo fluid (Naphtha) r0x0rz gum? I took a big fat wad (at LEAST three pieces) of bubble gum off of a pair of jeans. Douchebag left the shiat on a barstool. Personally, I would have to smack the shiat out of any 'tard that would:

a) chew bubble gum, AND
b) is of legal drinking age in the states

But whatever, it works. As far as wounds go, Super Glue (or any similar cyanoacrylate adhesive) will kick duct tape's ass for any wound that I've encountered.

Dafodude: Zippo fluid is also great for cleaning fingerprints off your monitor. Just be careful.

Also be careful using cyanoacrylate on larger wounds. Try not to get too much of it in the actual wound or it will help create nasty blood clots in places you may not want them.

Duct tape is great for patching surboard dings.

/duct tape and bailing wire - official toolkit of Virginia Power

Or just a thought:

I'm an aerospace engineering undergrad. At our department's subsonic wind tunnel, we found a cheap solution to sealing all the cracks and holes inherent to building an octagon-shaped wind tunnel: hundred mile-an-hour tape. It's about as effective as duct tape, but smoother. I wouldn't go using it on wounds, though (it's expensive-ish).

Finally! A fix for those pesky tiles on the Shuttle

I had a car that had duct tape holding the fuse box up, and wooden shims pounded into the rear bumper mounting to keep it from falling out.

Damn good car, though. Had over 170,000 miles on it when I sold it and no major mechanical trouble.

\1990 Jetta coupe
\\Loved that car
\\\Harry's U-Pull-It kept her running