flat tire on a car.
Anything else?
This thread is blasphemous.
A duck?
- failed marriage
- broken heart
- hack her to death with a kitchen knife
Sure it can! You just didn’t use enough of it! 
It will fix a leaky garden hose, but only for a short time. :smack:
It won’t fix a broken heart.
On Car Talk the other day, a caller said he had patched his car’s suspension with it, and had been driving that way for 3 or 4 weeks. :eek:
It won’t always pull out splinters.
At the risk of being stoned to death, I wish to say that I have been somewhat disappointed in duct tape here at college. I use it all the time to attach things to other things, and it never fails to, um, fail after a while.
On the other hand, it does seem to have repaired my sandals well enough.
I’m not sure what tasks duct tape fails at, but I DO know that it can hold together the Empire State Building.
It is not really great at repairing porcelain demitasse cups.
I read somewhere that a study was done on the stuff, and it was pretty bad at fixing actual ducts…
I doubt it can be used to fix this.
(As to ducts and tape, there’s a min. standard for foil tape the Feds have a spec for. It’s the more expensive foil tape at the hardware store of course. Which brings up the question of what you can use the cheaper stuff for. For many energy standards, only mastic-sealed ducts will do. But no one ever goes on and on about how mastic can fix everything.)
(personal experience)
It sucks for holding in flyscreen on a window.
Honestly, I’m not as feral as I sound. 
…fallen souffle. It’s no good for clarifying soups either
Gunshot wound to the head.
a broken condom. Well it could but who would want to use it after?
… President?
It probably wouldn’t be too great at holding together the atoms in the fissile core of a detonating nuclear weapon.
Ranchoth
(Or attaching an aircraft to a cloud.)
This thread makes the baby Red Green cry.
Gaping hull breach.
It also isn’t particularly good at patching a wet, leaky polyester tent (as I discovered during my abortive summer camping holiday this year)
Sure it can. You have to take the tire off of the rim and sand the inside of the tire where the hole is. Then apply some rubber cement on the rough surface. Wait a few minutes for the glue to set then cut a piece of duct tape in a circle and apply it to the glue. Hold pressure on the tape for several minutes until it is solidly adhered. replace the tire on the rim and fill it with air. It’ll hold.
Another way to make duct tape and a hell of a lot easier is to take a plug tool and use the duct tape as a plug. Roll a piece of tape until it is about as thick as a shoestring and then with a little glue or silicone insert the duct tape plug into the hole. That’ll stop the leak for awhile, if not indefinitely. I’ve plugged a many leak with a piece of leather cut off the boot strap on a pair of boots or belt…whatever might be handy. A screwdriver used to push the plug into place and it’s fixed.
BUT I’ve never been able to get duct tape to work on a duck. 