A previous thread on simulating duct tape made me think about the millions of uses for it that I’ve seen in my years living in and around the military. You might cringe at some of the uses for it that we employ for nuclear reactor repair at the ol’ Navy Yard. ( Tie wraps or stat straps , too for that matter)
Any of you folks got any good ones?
Let me see…affixing the antenna mount to the pole because the threading was gone…preparing a pallet load for airdrop…putting anything on the outside of a 113 because some other unit stole the tie down straps…and my favorite as a combat enginner…making sure the C4 stays on the bridge abutment even though it has a “self Stick” glue on one side
My absolute favorite, a field expediant fan belt. Thats right folks, folded over in half, and made into a loop “hundred mile an hour tape” will get you home if your fan belt breaks. The stuff has a million and one uses. Like Red Green says, “its the handy mans secret weapon” LMAO
That’s rich! A fan belt?? Another good reason to keep a roll in your vehicle. We’ve got guys here that use it to sculpt like papier mache’ and one guy who used it to make a pair of short pants and shoes after he contaminated himself and had nothing else to change into.
In my old Artillery unit, (1st-5th FA !st ID Mech), we towed a Hummer with ot once. About 10 strips back and forth and rolled into a rope shape and it worked for the 100 yards or so that we needed it. 100 mile-an-hour tape is the STUFF!
When I was in CFB. tranton I saw a CC-130 Herc with a glass jar in place of a part and it was mostly seald with duct tape!
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Fixed a blown radiator hose with it. Wrapped the hose a couple of times past the hole. Wound some baling/safety wire over the hole close together and then another layer of duct tape. filled the radiator and drove 120 mile back to the motor pool and replaced the hose.
Did the same thing in civial life with out the wire, but used a Coke can, the top and bottom cut off and rolled over the hole and then taped.
The tape sealed the hole, the can wire kept the tape from blowing out under the pressure and the second layer held it in place.
Some one used it to seal a bullet wound when they were out hunting. Hurt like a Muther when the ER doc took it off, but said it saved his life.
It seems to me I’ve seen hundred mile an hour tape on pretty much everything from a ch-47 (on the leading edge of the rear rotor blades) to a lister bag and everything in between. In my unit we probably used the most duct tape when constructing poncho rafts for helocasting. We’d probably use about fifty feet of duct tape per raft to shut the seams (and we still got water in our gear). Also, for prepping sling loads, we’d secure the padding to say, a jeep windshield with duct tape.
Al