Whoa! Don't use duct tape on ducts. Who knew?

My Jeep always has a good supply of duct tape (Gorilla brand) and cable ties.
Both essential for Kentucky engineering.

We used to call it Racing Tape since it would hold together loose body parts after minor scrapes common on the race track. Alternately, we called it 100 MPH Tape because it would hold those parts in place at speeds even higher than that.

One thing, never use the 3M-brand tape, whatever they called it. Below 45 degrees it wouldn't hold anything, nor in the rain. Useless shit, compared to other brands.

 
The Gorilla Tape brand is all I use.

That was very interesting, thanks for sharing.

What not to use it on seems to refer to hot surfaces; flues, mufflers, etc. Normal HVAC ducts don't get really hot, though I have seen lots of dried residue after removing old duct tape from an HVAC duct.

Interesting discussion. I particularly liked the sliding ball experiment.

I use duct tape all the time for lots of things.
(including once to hold trim panel on a car)

very interesting video

I was born in Brooklyn and my formative years were in the NYC area, so I had no idea what to expect when I accepted a software development project in Alabama. During the settling in period, I was informed that there were three things that I would never hear anybody say in Alabama:

1. "This tea is too sweet."
   
   
2. "There's too much primer on that pickup truck."
   
   
3. "You can't fix that with duct tape."

Glad to know what not to use it on. I'm guilty of using it to temporarily hold hot car parts together till I got home.

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Duct Tape is like The Force.
It has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.

The bushcraft crowd can tell you that duct tape is flammable, sometimes used as what they refer to as a 'flame extender'.

Duct Tape, it's like The Force; it has a light side, a dark side and it helps bind the universe together.

Project farm has some test... looks like they are a little dated however.

https://www.youtube.com/@Proje...ch?query=duct%20tape

Very interesting video.

I always get a laugh from the Red Green Show's use of duct tape.

Mythbusters proved it time and again that duct tape is the bomb. From hats to boats to a trebuchet, duct tape did the deed acceptably.

Very good vid. Thx for posting it.

One of my daughters used to make everything from wallets to her prom dress with duct tape in various colors. She used to sell most of the items to buy more tape with. She became and engineer.

In WV we sometimes call "duct tape", "WV chrome"....Kinda self explanatory!!

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Originally posted by Fredward:
One of my daughters used to make everything from wallets to her prom dress with duct tape in various colors. She used to sell most of the items to buy more tape with. She became and engineer.

Impressive. That's pretty good. I can tell she is a creative engineer, which is not standard equipment for all engineers. Very nice.

Good video. Learned something new today