Duct tape.

JW Day · Post by **JW Day** » 16 Oct 2005 9:23 am

Duane;
And I thought that I was the only poor guy that used the wire. The main problem that I faced was at the nights end, listening to all of the horse laughs when I was tearing down.

Mike Winter · Post by **Mike Winter** » 16 Oct 2005 10:38 am

Ha! The other night I played drums at a Honky Tonk jam at one of the local watering holes here in Portland. It was with some fellas I used to play with a few years back. I was told the kit I used to practice on would be there, so all I'd have to bring was my sticks. I usually carry a roll of "Musician's Best Friend" in my bag, but that night all I brought was my stick bag.

Long story short, the kit was falling apart. Luckily the guitar player had a HUGE roll of it, so I commenced to tape everything together: kick pedal, snare stand, hi hat pedal, etc. There wasn't a rug, so I made a rope out of tape and connected the bass drum to my seat. It all worked out, but I would've been up the creek without a paddle without the tape.

The stuff is awesome...a real life-saver sometimes. For more information on duct tape, give Red Green up in Canada a holler. He's an expert.

Roger Francis · Post by **Roger Francis** » 16 Oct 2005 11:21 am

wow, this is great, a guy post a topic of DUCT TAPE and just says it's great stuff and look at all the replies it's got so far, me included! My wife told me i needed to get a life and i told her to leave me alone, iwas sitting around with the rest of the guys talking about duct tape. Maybe this was kevins intenion. Hey, it worked. this is why i like the foum so much.
roger[This message was edited by Roger Francis on 16 October 2005 at 12:23 PM.]

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 16 Oct 2005 12:27 pm

I keep expecting Red Green to show up with some tips....

Vance Monday · Post by **Vance Monday** » 16 Oct 2005 1:13 pm

Here in Arkansas, we call it Arkansas welding rod...

Carl Williams · Post by **Carl Williams** » 16 Oct 2005 3:00 pm

b0b, I think this is where you've got to come in and "wrap up" this post up with some kinda tape/string/wire/gum/glue or if you have it, "DUCK" TAPE---Roger's already got into trouble with his boss and Vance just reminded me I needed to go to Wal-Mart and pickup some more Arkansas Welding Rod! ha

P.S. Thanks Vance, I'm LOL--a fellow Arkansan![This message was edited by Carl Williams on 16 October 2005 at 04:01 PM.]

Gibson Hartwell · Post by **Gibson Hartwell** » 16 Oct 2005 4:25 pm

Kevin - you have to ease up at the end of the night when you are thrusting those legs in the bag. Your old leg leg is patched with duct tape as well. Too funny.

Bert Berthold · Post by **Bert Berthold** » 16 Oct 2005 4:53 pm

Used it in Nam to temporally patch bullet/shrapnel holes in aircraft,it was o/d colored tho.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 16 Oct 2005 8:28 pm

The different stickiness levels of different rolls of duct tape serves a useful purpose.

The strong stuff will hold things together admirably, heat treated or not.
BUT it also can leave residue, and leaves things sticky forever,
collecting dirt, sand, small children, and the drummers sinsemillia.

But the black version is much less sticky,
so it is great for temp jobs, like holding mic wires down
where people walk, but only for one night.

When you pull the wires up and take the tape off,
without a 10 minute fight, or razor blades,
you really apreciate the LACK of stickiness...

Like I said " two rolls, one of EACH color.

Tom Quinn · Post by **Tom Quinn** » 16 Oct 2005 8:59 pm

Wow!!! And now you know! :- )

Dave Horch · Post by **Dave Horch** » 17 Oct 2005 1:30 am

JW - on that bailing wire thang... You know, or course, that you were ahead of your time, right?

The twine users

must have inspired the wire cable "rod" usage in the early days, but in the end, bailing wire derivitives proved more subtantial

. You boys should get patent $$ for each new steel sold today.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 17 Oct 2005 5:23 am

Duct tape was originally called "duck" tape. It was created, during WW2, originally to keep water out of ammunition boxes (per a History Channel or Discovery Channel show I watched sometime in the past several years.) Gaffers tape is like "duck" tape except the adhesive is weaker, so it will strip out easily.

Blake Hawkins · Post by **Blake Hawkins** » 17 Oct 2005 5:32 am

Bas,
"Duct Tape" and "Gaffers Tape" are not the same thing.
The adhesive is different.
So is the price.
Good Gaffers Tape will cost around $25 a roll
but Duct Tape can be had for $10 for the same amount.
That is the reason that some folks use Duct Tape when they should use Gaffers Tape.
Gaffers tape can be easily removed without damage to most surfaces and does not leave a residue. Duct tape will remove paint and the sticky adhesive will stay on your hands and on your cables.
The fabric on Gaffers Tape is finer and will tear easily and straight. You can tear Duct tape but it is more difficult.
Both come in a variety of colors.
When the gig or TV remote is finished, the Gaffer's tape is much easier to remove.
I had 30 years in TV production and have used 'em both.
Blake

Todd Pertll · Post by **Todd Pertll** » 17 Oct 2005 5:46 am

Not to change the subject to much, but:

I was driving home from a gig when my muffler detached at the back of the car. Being extremely late and not wanting to leave my car I decided to try my own qick fix to get me home. I took a string off of my bass and used it to hold the muffler on until I got home. just feed the string through the ball end around the pipe. Pull it up to the bottom of the car and tie it off. It got me through the weekend.

Brad Sarno · Post by **Brad Sarno** » 17 Oct 2005 6:00 am

And:
http://www.ducttapefashion.com/
http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/
http://204.255.212.10/~jthorsse/duct.html
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/ducttape.htm
http://www.ducktapeclub.com/ducktivities/

MBS

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 17 Oct 2005 6:42 am

Great links, Brad. I'm so ordering the duct tape guitar strap for my favorite Tele player's Christmas present...

Howard Tate · Post by **Howard Tate** » 17 Oct 2005 7:08 am

My wife saw some macho bandaids at Wally World made of duck tape, but when I went back to get them I couldn't find them.

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Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 17 Oct 2005 7:17 am

Charlie,
Yes, that's the truth! There is something in the adhesive on duct tape that reacts with the virus that's causing the wart. I've heard of doctors advising their patients of such. But then again, they might be the "quacks" that b0b talked about. In that case you'd want to use "Duck" tape!

Erv[This message was edited by Erv Niehaus on 17 October 2005 at 08:18 AM.]

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 17 Oct 2005 11:29 am

But do you have to heat it up to make it work?
Never mind.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 17 Oct 2005 12:45 pm

It might help but you have to be careful otherwise you might "quack" up!

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 17 Oct 2005 1:13 pm

Well,

Being in the plumbing and heating business,
a helper I had hired for a while to do a forced-hot air system, had the astuteness to ask me what we might do to make the system more air tight [he noticed some little breaches around duct fittings etc., and was concerned about heat leakage].

I told him we would now be "sealing" up all those questionable joints with, guess what?, DUCT TAPE. That was the real reason the stuff was invented in the first place.

But, as we have all come to realize, it has been a real life-saver-get-me-outta-here product. Adheres under almost any adverse situations. Great stuff.
[This message was edited by CHIP FOSSA on 17 October 2005 at 02:16 PM.]

Larry Strawn · Post by **Larry Strawn** » 17 Oct 2005 1:44 pm

This is by far one of the best products ever marketed!!!!

But in my case it really "looks" bad me carrying a couple of different colored rolls on a welding truck!!! Oh well, I quess the uneducated can learn,, LOL..

Larry

Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 17 Oct 2005 4:22 pm

Those of you living West of the Rockies will be glad to know that you can remove cactus thorns by putting a strip of duct tape over the affected body part and then ripping it off. Works with splinters too. You may have to do it a couple times but it works great when nothing else does.
-MJ-

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 17 Oct 2005 6:39 pm

Erv's right. I tried duct tape on a wart last winter after hearing about it and, sure enough, that sucker disappeared in a couple of days. Got another wart, put some more duct tape on, and whoola! No more wart. There simple is no limit the the use for that stuff.

I delivered a load of it to a Walmart though and it took them 9 hours to unload it! Seems there is a lot of sub-species of the duct animal these days.

JW Day · Post by **JW Day** » 17 Oct 2005 8:10 pm

Thanks Dave,
I hadn't thought about the royality thing. I think the rods work better and they are much easier to tear down when the evening is over. I don't suppose it would do any harm to talk to my lawyer though.