Posted on 04/02/2013 7:08:27 PM PDT by Kartographer
1. Repairing a cracked water bottle or a pierced hydration bladder. A little strip of DT is the next best thing to a bandage for an ailing water vessel. Just dry the surface before you try to tape your patch in place, most forms of duct tape don’t stick to wet surfaces.
2. Survival arrow fletching. Tear off a few 5-inch pieces, and a long edge of one piece to the arrow shaft, fold the tape lengthwise, and stick the other long edge of that piece to the arrow. Repeat this process one or two more times; trim the vanes to shape with your knife; and you will have a serviceable arrow fletching. 3. Butterfly bandage strips. Cut two small strips of DT, and add a smaller strip across their centers (sticky side to sticky side) to create a makeshift butterfly suture. 4. Make cordage. Twist one or several lengths of duct tape into a cord or rope.
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/johnny
I’ll probably be the only one here to say this, but I don’t like the stuff, and have regretted using it in the past as it leaves it’s sticky residue and only delays things or makes them worse.
I don’t even carry it on my work truck, as a repairman, I have never found it useful and eventually quit even keeping it at all.
I can see having some and carrying a little in a survival kit, but I think people should in general avoid it around the house.
I used it to patch a hole in an old kayak that was starting to break down. That bugger held up for a long time, til the kayak was just plain junk and thrown out. :o)
I remember a NASCAR race from years ago, everyone was getting banged up and taping the bodies together left and right. The race was nicknamed The Duct Tape 500.
Works great to hold your heat ducts together.
I could say the same thing about at least one ex-wife.
/johnny
Ain’t exactly prepper but when you move your cactus to the patio this spring and get spines in your hands, duct tape applied adhesive side down to spines on your hands and pulled off quickly will make short work of them.
I use it as Moleskin.
Sticks to my foot or toes and ankles on the one side and slips against the shoe or boot on the other.
Can’t tell you how many knew and Kewel shoes I’ve bought and instantly had problems with. I currently have on a pair of Vans that rub my middle, on my right foot raw. I forget they do this but, once I feel it I slap a piece of tape over it and no problemohs
Only 23? I guess they never watched “The Red Green Show”.
/johnny
Emergency candle or firestarter.
Duct tape and a stick can fix a broken hiking pole
Duct tape and the end of a foam sleeping pad can help a too large backpack lap belt fit a too skinny Boy Scout better
Duct tape, the handyman’s secret weapon
When all else fails, switch to power tools.
I’m a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess.
If women don’t find you handsome, at least they can find you handy.
All Red Green quotes
I miss Red, Harold and the gang at Possum Lodge
Here is an airplane taped back together after a bear tore it up.
http://gizmodo.com/5447738/bear-attacks-plane-pilot-fixes-plane-with-duct-tape-pilot-flies-duct+taped-plane-home
LOL!!
I’ll probably be the only one here to say this, but I don’t like the stuff, and have regretted using it in the past as it leaves it’s sticky residue and only delays things or makes them worse.
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Really? I’m thinking of 5-6 things around my house that are duct taped. Perhaps I could have taken more time and repaired it correctly. But it was either DT it or throw it away.
I did buy a new garden hose to replace the one I duct taped. But I haven’t opened it yet. The DT hose works ok.
Gorilla tape is what duct tape wants to be when it grows up. Like Gorilla glue on a roll.
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