- close a too short pillow case on my body pillow.
- repair jeans snagged at the knee by a Chihuahua.
- Tape a knife to a pipe and go weeding in my garden with a glaive
- patch my backpack
I love to play with duct tape. I think this is why there’s never any bought for this household anymore. Oh well. I can amuse myself with other things in the meantime…
- Hi OpalCat!
You can’t have a two point list—You could get killed!!!
I used duct tape on my fiance, I love to hear him scream!
… in college, one of my professors suggested that my rough draft could be improved by cutting it apart and rearranging the paragraphs – sorta like an old fashioned word processor. Yeah, all I had in the house was duct tape. I got an A on the final draft. 
Grrrr! I guess that italics don’t work in subject lines. Hey, and where did my cool, new sig go?
- Clean the dog hair off the throw rug
Sorry that’s it.
It’s a short list.
Hold the bumper on my car during a road trip… so it didn’t drag on the ground.
-Lsura
- fix a duct (really)
- secure a paint roller onto a roller-pole
- clean lint off my pimp suit
- tweak a painting so it hangs level
Repair my kendo kote. Covers holes in the leather beautifully, and wrapped around the seam of one glove, keeps the straw-like inner stuffing from falling out.
I’ve stitched leather patches on them in the past, but duct tape works almost as well and is a lot easier…
- Hold a suitcase shut.
- Tape a kids mouth shut.
The two have no relation I swear!
Ok Whammo, now I’m curious. What was this perversion? I want to see if I’ve heard of a more perverted one…
I, too, just used duct tape yesterday to wrap a duffel/suitcase so it wouldn’t explode on the trip. My kids seem to have made out like bandits while they were here and went back with 3 more bags than they came with.
Reavealing Geekiness:
Once, in high school, I used duct tape as part of a costume I made for a fantasy movie some friends and I made.
Golly, Jois, how big is your chihuahua, anyway? Kinda like hearing somebody say, “repair jeans snagged at the knee by a really huge mosquito”.
On the first night of our trek to the Pacific Northwest, we discovered that the two-piece bunk mattress in the trailer wouldn’t stay put. It kept sliding out from under La Principessa, who, being of royal blood, insisted she could never sleep on it that way, and some other lesser mortal would have to trade bunks with her. Since it was exactly the size of a 10-year-old girl (which is why she was assigned to it), this created a problem.
The Better Half stuck the two mattresses together with duct tape and we continued our journey.
Once again, I re-covered my footstool with it. Must be 10 or 11 layers by now. :D:D
About a year ago I heard on the radio about a study that determined that taping ducts was just about the only thing duct tape wasn’t good for. It sounds suspiciously like a UL to me, though. I’ll try to find out.
What do you kno. It’s true, according to the Seattle Times.
I don’t think I’ve used duct tape this week at all, but in the past I’ve used it to patch a leather jacket ripped by a dog. It’s still holding up after 5 years; the dog is now falling apart, though.
Well, it’s just about as good as anything else, but you have to make sure the ducts are extra clean and fit together well to make sure it holds and seals efficiently. You can also put a bead of caulk(or something like it) before you tape it for the extra seal.
As an aside, interstitial spaces can be really scary. I remodeled my mom’s bathroom last summer and found some really interesting stuff in between the ceiling and the upstairs floor!
:eek:
Sigh…everyone knows it’s duck tape. Morons.
“If you can’t duck it, fuck it.”
Because paint dries.
Stars, they don’t go away so quickly…