Duct Tape -- Is there ANYTHING it can't do?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Share one or more of YOUR more unusual uses with it.
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NO SEX THREADS!!!!!
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[HipChick]

1. It got me a hiding..

My mum said I couldn't hit my little brother, but she didn't say I couldn't duct tape him to the fridge for stealing my ice cream...

[Kali]

2. not enough bandwidth

let's just say MY WHOLE LIFE!

[handmade34]

3. good one...

a number of years ago my momma pig had a litter and inadverdantly stepped on one of the babies leaving a gaping hole in the little guy's side. My clever partner got the duct tape and wrapped it around the piglet... it kept him alive!

[Stuart G]

4. Had a hole in a pocket..too lazy to sew..just taped it shut.......nt

[underpants]

5. In the US Army it is green and called "Hundred mile per hour tape"

the story is that a "deuce and a half" (2,500 pounds carrying load) was rolling down a hill and it hit some hundred mile per hour tape stretch out (for some reason) and it stopped the truck.

[vanlassie]

6. Many years ago my then husband was a hotel clerk

while in college. Hunter S Thompson checked in to the hotel (this was in San Luis Obispo, CA) Later that evening, HST called down to the desk, acting very paranoid, and wanted my ex to look around the lobby to see if there were any "bad guys" out there. My husband said, no- he didn't see anything out of the ordinary. HST made him go outside and check the parking lot and the bushes. Then HST asked if my ex knew where they could score some weed (which of course, he did... hahahha) At around midnight when the ex's shift ended, the two of them went out on the town (such as it is, in SLO)to a couple of bars. It was at this point that HST said that he had been thinking it would be a good thing to keep a big roll of duct tape handy, so that if he ever saw a couple arguing in a bar, he could quickly wrap them together with duct tape. Apparently he thought this was a pretty funny thought.
My Hunter S Thompson Duct Tape Story.
I was at home with the baby at the time. It's a second hand story.

Oh- and another time the same Ex-husband was a team leader on Christo's Yellow Umbrella crew. Everybody had to wrap duct tape around the bottom of their jeans so the snakes couldn't get in. Christo actually wrapped his whole shoes in duct tape.

[Kali]

9. Great story!

I love it.

[pokerfan]

7. fix a headlight

[Kali]

10. I've done that.

tail lights for a stock trailer - even bought red marker to color the lenses:eyes:

[rurallib]

8. One of my favorite Darwin Award stories features duct tape

"It turned out that he and his brother-in-law decided to go bar hopping to celebrate his recovery. Since he was stuck in a wheelchair, they figured the best way to get him from bar to bar was to duct tape his wheelchair to the bed of the pickup truck. The plan worked perfectly all evening, as they got more and more soused. If only they had also duct-taped the roofer to his wheelchair.

They were on their way home when his brother-in-law took a corner too fast. The roofer shot out from his wheelchair and landed on the street."

whole story http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2005-09.html
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speaking of hole story, which side of that TP do you use?

[csziggy]

11. It saved the life of one of our horse babies

The foal was born prematurely with a condition called contracted tendons. This is when the tendons have not grown as much as the bones and the foal cannot straighten the legs enough to stand.

We had to put splints on her legs and to keep the splints from rubbing the newborn's tender skin, we had to pad them and rewrap her daily. We'd wrap the padding on with Vet-rap, a special non-sticky tape, then every day we used about a quarter of a roll of duct tape to hold the splints on top.

We did it for nearly three months. Every day. That foal grew up just fine - she's now one of our broodmares. Spoiled rotten from day one, but she made it.

At one point we took her to the University of Florida Vet School for help and they told us to put her to sleep - that she would never be able to walk properly. HAH! Duct tape proved them wrong!

[texanwitch]

12. Duck tape cable saved my house from Hurricane Ike.

I used duck tape to make duck tape cable to keep a norfork pine tree from hitting the house.

It worked very well.

The wind was blowing very strong but the duck tape cable was stronger.

I can give directions how to make duck tape cable.

[noamnety]

13. When I was house hunting

The realtor showed me one house where the bathtub had been "caulked" with duct tape.

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. The seat on my motorcycle was pretty torn up and I couldn't afford repair/replacement...

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...so I pretty much did the entire seat in black duct tape.
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Up close, pretty cheesy -- from a distance it looked like a cool REPTILIAN seat.
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[handmade34]

15. no duct tape... redgreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QFRSjWVTmY

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8582265462488471559#

[doc03]

16. There is one thing duct tape is not good for

that is on heating/cooling ducts.
http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/duct_tape.html

[sarge43]

17. Not recommended for quick Brazilian wax jobs.

Otherwise the universal problem solver.

[many a good man]

18. Miracle wart remover

I suffered for years and years with ginormous warts on the bottom of my feet, which were sometimes very painful.

I tried everything short of surgical removal and nothing worked.

Finally, I asked my brother the doctor (three board certifications) what I should do and he recommended putting a patch of duct tape on them.

Voila! Within six weeks they were completely gone never to return.

[Mopar151]

19. Don't use it on electrical connections

The silver stuff is kinda conductive.....

[JCMach1]

20. Duct tape and nail polish cured my plantar's wart

Quickly and almost painlessly. A year before I had it done with surgery and I had a painful gaping hole in my foot for 6 weeks.

[many a good man]

22. Did everyone hear that?!

It's a miracle cure for wart removal, just like I said!

I nominate duct tape for the Nobel Prize for Medicine!

[JCMach1]

23. I am really serious... was trying everything to avoid the surgery...

Here is a video (not mine) if you can stomach it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8om11_CrR2E

[Duer 157099]

21. Duct Tape: the Bacon of the inedible world

The equivalent bacon question is: what food is not improved by bacon?

[conscious evolution]

24. What ducttape can't fix

this can
http://www.wd40.com/

[handmade34]

25. throw in a pair of vise-grips

and you control the world