Uses for Duck Tape

Duck Tape comes in Colors

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Simply Car Installation Using Duck tape

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Duck Tape Keeps the Plane Flying

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I Feel Safer All Ready

Interesting Use for Duck Tape

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Fix It Time with Duck Tape

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Shoe Repair

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Poor Realtor Sign made of Duck Tape

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The Rifleman Knows his Duck Tape Use

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Duck Tape fo Car Repair

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Duck Tape Gloves

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Duck Tape Crime Fighter

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Duck Tape Checks

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Duck Tape the Bicycle

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Funny Duck Tape Use Number 144

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Using Duck Tape as a temporary sign

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Duck Tape Feet

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Duck Tape and Hazing

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Duck Tape can prevent drinking

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Xmas Wreath made from Duck Tape

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Duck Tape now comes in Colors

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Duct Tape Race Car

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Duct Tape Heads

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Duck Tape Works Great for Boot Repair

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Homemade Duck Tape Shorts

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The Duck Tape Man

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The Duck Tape Bandaid

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Man Duck Taped

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When in doubt, just duck tape it

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Christmas Wreath made from Duck Tape

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She Looks Hot in Duck Tape

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Funny Duck Tape Bathing Suit, is this a new fashion design?

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Duck Tape and the needed Refrigerator Repair

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Duck Tape and the New Mailbox

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Using Duck Tape for Repairs

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Duck Taped Chicken

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YouTube Video: The Card Shark

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Duck Tape Man

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Just box it up

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Dog versus the Duck Tape

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That NEW Yellow Duck Tape sure is colorful

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Girl Needs Body Repair, Use Duck Tape

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When in doubt, just duck tape it

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Lower that Duck Tape Down

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Duck Tape - A gift that keeps on giving

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Backyard Project and Duck Tape

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Duck Tape the in the field

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Duck Tape Gun

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A Coke Tuxedo made using cans and duck tape

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Desk Pocket

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Duck Tape: Best Method for NO Talking

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Using Duck Tape to create a dorm room target board

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Another fine use for Duck Tape

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Duck Tape the Wood Duck

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Another Inventive Idea for Using Duck Tape

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The Duck Tape Beer Can Handle

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Emergency Use - Duck Tape Needed!

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Duck Tape helps keep the little woman in line!

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Another Unusual Use for Duct Tape

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YouTube Video: Duck Tape (your friends)

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Duct Tape for everything

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He loves his Duck Tape

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Duck Tape the Diapers

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Damn diaper when they say, 10 ponds, they ought to hold 10-pounds!

Hillbilly Lawn Chair

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Upper Body Look, all made from Duct Tape

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Duct Tape Bra

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Duck Tape that Tree

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A Good Duck Tape Illiustration

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Strange Girl, but she loves her duck tape

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Duck Tape the damn Cat, I love it!

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The Computer versus Duct Tape

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Duck Tape works well on controlling a hyper active dog

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The Duck Tape Line

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Abstarct Use for Duct Tape

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Somebody is gonna be very upset

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The prank - duck taped car!

It's called STFU

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YouTube Vid: Home Made Mouse Trap using Duck Tape

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YouTube Vid: Behind the Scenes with Santa

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Santa Finds a Use for Duck Tape

Some More Uses for Duck Tape

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Youtube Video: A Duct Tape Christmas

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YouTube Video: Duck Tape - Roommate v. Doritos

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Video: Workers

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Going to the Moon? Don't Forget Your Duct Tape

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NASA Science News for April 21, 2008
Thirty-six years ago when Apollo 17 astronauts found themselves a quarter million miles from home with a damaged moonbuggy, a roll of "good old fashioned American gray tape" saved the day.
Here's the Full Story ......
At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same way. The sound of gray tape being torn from rolls practically filled the race course as dozens of college and high school student engineers busily assembled and repaired their homemade moonbuggies.
Little did they know, this was in the finest tradition of lunar exploration. Turning back the clock 36 years reveals the key roll of duct tape in NASA's Apollo program:
The date was Dec. 11, 1972. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just landed their lunar module Challenger in a beautiful mountain-ringed valley named Taurus-Littrow on the edge of the Sea of Serenity. Mission planners chose the site for its geological variety: the ground was covered by a mix of giant boulders, hardened lava, orange glass beads (a sign of ancient volcanic fire fountains) and, of course, ubiquitous moondust. The valley itself was a fracture created in the aftermath of an asteroid impact billions of years ago; the history of the Moon, many suspected, might be written along its walls. Jack Schmitt, the first geologist on the Moon, could hardly wait to get started.
Above: Apollo 17 astronauts and moonbuggy in the Taurus-Littrow valley. [More]
About 60 seconds after touchdown, Schmitt radioed Houston, "Batteries look good," followed by a brief pause, and "Oh, man!! Look at that rock out there!"
Cernan agreed, "Absolutely incredible."
Within hours the two astronauts were down the ladder loading a raft of geology tools and experiments onto their Lunar Roving Vehicle or "moonbuggy." Everything was going smoothly until Cernan brushed against the rover; a hammer in the shin pocket of his spacesuit caught the buggy's right rear fender and tore half of it off.
Cernan: "Oh, you won't believe it. There goes a fender."
Schmitt: "Oh, shoot!"
Now, a moonbuggy in Alabama can go just fine without a fender, but in Taurus-Littrow a missing fender was a potential disaster. The reason is moondust. When a rover rolls across the lunar surface, it kicks up a plume of moondust in its wake. (Astronauts called them "rooster tails.") Without a fender, the rover would be showered by a spray of dark, abrasive grit. White spacesuits blackened by dust could turn into dangerous absorbers of the fierce lunar sun with astronauts overheating inside. Sharp-edged dust wiped off visors would scratch the glass, making helmets difficult to see out of. Moondust also had an uncanny way of working itself into hinges, latches and joints, rendering them useless.
Above: Apollo 17 moonbuggy fender repaired with duct tape.
Cernan: "And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try … to get that fender back on. Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?" (He's referring to a roll of ordinary, gray duct tape.)
Schmitt: "Yes."
Cernan: "Okay. I can't say I'm very adept at putting fenders back on. But I sure don't want to start without it. I'm just going to put a couple of pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it...(and) see whether we can't make sure it stays."
In spite of his thick gloves, Cernan managed to unroll and tear off the needed pieces, but moondust foiled his first repair:
Cernan: "…good old-fashioned gray tape doesn't want to stick very well." (At a post flight briefing he explained: "Because there was dust on everything, once you got a piece of tape off the roll, the first thing the tape stuck to was dust; and then it didn't stick to anything else.")
His second attempt succeeded, however. "I am done!" crowed Cernan. "If that fender stays on ... I'd like some sort of mending award." And with that, they were off.
For the next four hours they drove the moonbuggy far and wide around the landing site, stopping to drill holes and collect core samples, deploy seismic charges and set up other experiments. Even with all four fenders, Cernan had to dust off the rover at each stop (mission planners provided a special moondust brush for the purpose). This soaked up many minutes of valuable time, but could've been worse as they were about to discover.
Right: Gene Cernan works with his roll of duct tape. Click to view a longer movie with sound.
Driving across a rough patch of lunar terrain, Cernan commented, "Man, you could lose the rear end of this thing in a hurry." And, indeed, the fender fell off again. Duct tape held it for a while, but moondust had reduced the tape's stickiness too much to hold on for a whole EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity).
Schmitt: "I think you have lost your fender. I keep getting rained on here (with lunar dust)."
Cernan: "Oh, no!"
Schmitt: "Look at our rooster tail."
Subsequent stops required considerable housekeeping. "Let me run around and dust!" radioed Cernan while Schmitt deployed the Surface Electrical Properties (SEP) experiment. In a post-flight briefing he noted, "The dust on the battery covers and everything else was thick enough to write in. With a working fender you'd always got a light film of dust; but this was 'dirt' dust."
Back at the Challenger, Cernan gave the parked rover a rueful inspection. "Oh, man, I tell you, it's going to take us half a dozen Sundays to dust. Look at that fender; that's terrible. Boy, that one fender just [creates] an order of magnitude more of a dust problem."
Back in Houston, NASA engineers understood the seriousness of the situation. If they couldn't come up with a solution while Cernan and Schmitt slept, the next day's exploration could be severely curtailed. The astronauts might even be limited to walking distance.
Right: Gene Cernan, back in the lunar lander after a long EVA. The smudges on his forehead and longjohns are moondust. Photo credit: Jack Schmitt. [More]
But they did come up with a fix and it called on, you guessed it, duct tape.
When Cernan and Schmitt woke up the next morning, mission control explained how they should tape four laminated maps together in the shape of the missing fender. "Just call me the little old fender maker," said Cernan as he tore off pieces of gray tape. This time the taping was done inside the relatively dust-free confines of the lunar lander, so the duct tape retained its usual stickiness. Clamped to the moonbuggy, the new fender held for the rest of the mission, which included another 15 hours of EVAs.
One dousing with dust was enough to make a deep impression on Schmitt. Back on Earth he opined that "the dust issue is one that just has to be addressed. It's going to be the major environmental issue for future missions to the Moon."
Back to the future: Right now, NASA is preparing a return to the Moon and dust is very much on the agency's mind. NASA scientists are doing laboratory experiments with samples of Apollo moondust to discover techniques for "moondust mitigation." And a new NASA spacecraft named LADEE is devoted entirely to moondust. Short for Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, LADEE will orbit the moon in 2011 or 2012 watching for "dust storms" thought to occur when electrostatically charged moondust levitates off the lunar surface.
When next-generation astronauts go to the Moon, they'll know a lot more about moondust than their Apollo predecessors. But you can bet there’s one thing they won’t leave home without "good old-fashioned American gray tape."

YouTube Video: Duct Tape Bandit - Exposed!

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Just for Conspiracy Nuts

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To Keep Your Tin Foil Hat on, simply Duck Tape it.

Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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Random Duck Tape Picture Images

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First Set of Duck Tape Picture Images

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