Next to your brain, duct tape is bound to be the most frequently used tool in you garage. NO! Most used in the house! The uses are nearly endless. From packing a box to keeping your car bumper on. Let's see what our fellow car guys use duct tape for. What have we got?

My uses:

- Sealing a box
- Putting on price tags when we have a garage sale (if nothing else is avalible)
- Getting lint of off black shirts.
- Holding bike parts together
- Labels

OR A redneck flytrapl:)

What are your uses?

Attaching loud mouth teenagers to light poles at Chevelleabration.

There were some of those at a local Firebird show. Booing Jerry Reed music (you go to a Firebird show and you don't have to like the Jerry Reed music, but don't you ever boo it).

Convertible top repair.

Oooh, I remember now. My dad's car has a steering wheels that is mostly "foam" (It is a 1998 Dodge Stratus) and some mighty big pits were being worn into it. So we fixed that with some tan duct tape. We also fixed some small tears in the vinyl with tan duct tape.

How about patching holes in a super cub's wing and flying it home? Didn't happen to me but my godfather and his dad went out to look at a plane that had some hail damage? They ended up taping all the holes with duct tape and flew it home!

seen the clear duct tape?

seen the clear duct tape?

Packaging tape? Oh yes.

If it's clear, how can you see it?

If it's clear, how can you see it?

Paint it.

Taping the seems between clothes, boots and pants when working in bad environments and also making my redneck waders for fishing that consists of boots, ducttape and cheap waterproof pants.

Used to use it to fit the hazmat suits (asbestos removal) around my legs and wrists and I have made nunchucks from it and two small rolling pins.

I use it to tag parts and bags of parts as well because masking tape and painters tape peels off too easy with heat and wear.

I used to put bugs and insects on it and watch them struggle to get away. Alas, they were stuck out in the hot, hot sun.

Okay for short time use but turns goooy after a while -tim-

Convertible top repair.



Oh boy, does that bring back memories.
How about tieing up the loose ends of your ratchet straps on the car trailer?

Cheap body waxing material for those with a high tolerance for pain!:D

While in Iraq I was a generator mechanic...

I couldnt get electrical tape....I could get Duct tape....sooooo...

I had wires buried underground. When a tank or vehicle shorted out my wiring, I gathered the iraqi workers and dug the wire up. We cut and spliced the wires. Covered each lead with duct tape. For insulation I cut the ends off a plastic water bottle wrapped each lead with the water bottle and added more duct tape...
THEN...I took all 4 leads and held them together...wrapped the 4 leads in a water bottle and added yet more duct tape...covered the whole splice in duct tape and then buried it again.

Fixing house slippers that are on my feet at this very moment. :cool:

-making templates for metal fabrication
-emergency tent rope (forgot the rope, had the tape)
-motorcycle and auto headlight attachment
-layout floor plans before building
-layout door and window openings before cutting (so others can see what it will look like)
-hold tile and stone in place until it sets (vertical applications) same with glue on trim
-bandage when out in boonies and hurt finger really bad, bandages got to soggy and kept falling off. Lasted two days until we got to er then skin had reattached, no stiches required
-tape dogs preacher collar securely to dogs neck
-shop glasses repair (nerd alert).
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OK, I have a real use that some here might be able to use. If you use a universal joint with a extention sometimes it's hard to get the socket on the bolt. If you wrap some duct tape around it it will stiffin it enough to...ah never mind.....

OK, I have a real use that some here might be able to use. If you use a universal joint with a extention sometimes it's hard to get the socket on the bolt. If you wrap some duct tape around it it will stiffin it enough to...ah never mind.....

No, thats a great idea, I have used it!

Shoes!!

Being in the used car business,the possibilites are endless.:D

I will never forget the one Halloween when my daughter went as Duct Tape Woman. I'll always remember the screams coming from her room as my wife was unwrapping her.l:)

Shoes!!
Them look like my house slippers I just posted about...l:)

Being in the used car business,the possibilites are endless.:D

I will never forget the one Halloween when my daughter went as Duct Tape Woman. I'll always remember the screams coming from her room as my wife was unwrapping her.l:)

Poor girl. Wouldn't it have been easier to wrap the clothes in duct tape and not her body? All I can say is OUCH! Or just do what dad says:

"Tear it off really fast and you won't feel a thing"

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Had a tierod end pop out of socket on an old Chevy at 2am. I popped it back in with a hammer and in less than a mile it fell out again.
So popped it back in again and wrapped it all around with duct tape and drove it the rest of the way home. 80 miles with no more problems.
Was a slow trip home though.

Taping shut the beak of that moronic AFLAC duck.........sort of a duck, duct tape if you will:thumbsup:

Taping shut the beak of that moronic AFLAC duck.........sort of a duck, duct tape if you will:thumbsup:


:sad: :D

http://i350.photobucket.com/albums/q409/IsabellaS1/ducttape1.jpg

Funny you should mention that. This is what my daughter did to one of the guys she shared a house with about a year ago

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Also good for sealing the lids down when winterizing a house with big
DOT NOT USE
written with a big magic marker.

A lot of cheap duct tape is only good for falling off what ever you put it on while GOOD duct tape is useful for sealing up air leaks in duct work. :D

To hold the flashlight on the bumper when you don't have any headlights.

Taping Ducts.
I used it once to hold the exhaust out of the way while installing a transmission.

Had an english teacher that thought it was pretty good for keeping overly talkative students quiet!:D

Emergency condoms.;)

emergency condoms.;)

ouch!!!:d

Dept. of Energy people use it to pick up radioactive material
They are also the largest single purchaser of duct tape.

My mom used to work for the DOE years ago-------took me thru an old nuclear energy plant, and showed me the 2 nuclear powered plane 'engines'.

When I say old-----think late 50s early 60s

I use it today---just a couple of days ago --- to cover expansion joints and cracks in concrete floors so I can use my air powered equipment moving set.
I works just like a hovercraft, works nice on a good floor, but absolutely hates cracks larger than 3/16". Pretty cool moving a piece of equipment that weighs about 7,000lb with just your finger----but on these pieces, need a couple of people to steer it and be the brakes. Once it gets moving, can get hard to stop.

Emergency toilet paper..........that's gotta hurt, i don't care who or where you are:sad:

i once lost a radiator cap and duct taped a shop rag into the neck of the radiator to keep the water in until i got home (about 3 miles). my favorite duct tape story is one a friend of mine at work told. he had a heater duct in his house that seperated. he pulled it out and duct taped it. his wife was watching him do it and commented that she never ceased to be amazed at the endless uses of duct tape. he said that probably was the first time i ever used it for its original purpose!

My favorite was the line..

"The doctor says Band-Aids....I say duct tape!"

Somebody came to fix our garage door and I just happened to be doing some grinding out there. He said he could remember back when his whole family was dirt poor. For bicycle tire inner tubes, they used to cut up a garden hose and duct tape the ends. If it got holes, more doct tape was added.

Red Green is the duct tape guru imo.The kids bought me the dvd set for Christmas.This chap is talented.

We used to use it to tape Hot Wheels tracks down to the floor.

I used to put bugs and insects on it and watch them struggle to get away. Alas, they were stuck out in the hot, hot sun.

Brutal, man :sad:

My daughter threatened to use it as birth control on her daughter. Her daughter relented and went onto a more conventional form!:D
The Mexicans at the sod farm used it for closing up cuts and I mean CUTS!!!

As mentioned above there is the king of duct tape, Red Green.

YouTube - The Red Green Show - "No Duct Tape"

Why does that show remind me so much of "Tool Time" from "Home Improvement"?

I used it once as a bandade.Trimmimg scrubs with a electric trimmer and pushing the cut ones out of the way with my other hand. It worked,but best to put some wrap underneath before the tape. Tore the cut back open when i took it off.