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Gearheart · 12-25-2015, 10:47 AM

Foot blisters. I got one the size of a nickel walking barefoot on Virginia Beach, from the hotel to the fishing pier and back. We were going to tour Williamsburg the next day and I was effectively crippled. 5 layers of duck tape over the lanced blister and I hiked all over the place the next day and around DC the next day. No pain or even discomfort. There's a roll in my first aid kit ever since.

Ray Eklund · 12-25-2015, 11:07 AM

Gearheart... PhD MD medical profession in your future!

I was driving my 4x4 into the back country in the western Nebraska Badlands. In the process of driving further back on two ruts and up some steep badland sections, my driver's side broke through the crust above an under the surface "water flute", I call them. The surface look solid, but with weight you can break through.

I needed a jack and a shovel to get my rear wheel up, fill the "flute" so I could go any further. Getting the jack from under the drivers seat there ARE sharp wire ends that are part of the suspension for the seats. One of these sliced a razor sharp cut an inch long. It was now sunset and with a flash light I could see that the skin was sliced where I could spread it apart to see the muscle tissue below. It really did not bleed very much, but needed to self stitch the open cut... or better yet... DUCT TAPE it.

I added some Neosporin and a strip of "silver duct tape" and used tension to secure the wound and spent the night at a 45 degree angle to await daylight the next morning.

Worked like a professional job. I let the duct tape hold it together until it began to peel off from my skin. I then repeated the process. Discovered lots of Oligocene Fossils at the former Munson Ranch north of Harrison, Nebraska.

If anyone wants to see the scar... ask. It barely shows, so I have lost the sport of creeping people out with the story. Now... tearing off my left foot's big toe nail climbing some steep cliffs in my climbing boots... that one is an even better story. I will show you that toe nail as well. It did not turn out so well... but did not use Duct Tape. Should of, but did not have any with me on that trip.

Maybe dames7 needs to be coming out west in 2016 and BRING you duct tape...

Lily&Me · 12-25-2015, 11:39 AM

Merry Christmas Ray and Nancy!

Maggie.

cwf · 12-25-2015, 02:58 PM

Warts!!! Cut duct tape enough to cover and secure around wart by About 3/8" al the way around. Leave on for a week... Carefully remove duct tape and use pumice stone to scrub away dead skin. Reapply duct tape for another week. Repeat cleaning. Saw it happen..

Here is link to process and some research. Using Duct Tape as a Wart Removal Method – Step By Step Procedure To Be Successful |

Did not do myself.

cwf · 12-25-2015, 03:02 PM

Duct taped a starter motor in place after the mount casting broke on an aircraft engine. Got us home.

Duct taped a "cracked" wooden prop and windscreen on a Piper Cub when it flipped in Alaska during a "landing".. Temp repair of wing fabric... Make sure you put same number of wraps of duct tape at same Place on opposite end of
Prop

3wd67rg · 12-28-2015, 05:31 PM

Can't afford to replace back window in my 2003 F150, (gasket has gone bad), it's been wearing marine duct tape for years. I seriously need to get it fixed though.

I wrap several feet of duct tape around golf pencils, these are in all my backpacks for emergency use. There is also one in the first aid kit I take with me. I've fixed boots so I could hike home properly. I've used it on many a blister. Unlike moleskin, duct tape actually stays in place despite hot sweaty feet.

Ray Eklund · 02-02-2016, 01:24 PM

Under Refrigerators I found what might be a fix for the loud, obnoxious vibrating sounds from the exterior exhaust fan to cool the back of the Dometic Refrigerator.

It might not be the fan, but the factory installation without any thought as to years of complaints of excessive fan noise.

At this moment... and counting, a rolled up piece of duct taped cardboard did stop the vibration amplified noise into the trailer's interior. If this is driving you NUTS, as I already find myself after TWO Airstreams with identical issues... read that thread.

Another great use for duct tape, and it could save you money and give you a good night's sleep for the price of some rolled up piece of cardboard box.

Ray Eklund · 02-10-2016, 01:37 PM

The refrigerator fan "Silence is Golden" lasted one day, once arriving at the Gilbert Ray RV Park to the west of Tucson, AZ.

The annoying buzzing, wheezing and grinding increased... back to the normal background noise. Sometimes you succeed, and sometimes you don't.

Larry_D · 11-10-2018, 06:40 PM

Also, a great use is to heavily wrap your splitting maul handle next to the head to keep from tearing up the handle when you're splitting wood.

Or, backing for disc brake pads to keep them from squeaking.

I could go on and on!

Lumatic · 11-10-2018, 06:56 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo1KBhwwtpo

GOUSC · 11-14-2018, 06:30 PM

My wife and I were hiking up Bright Angel Trail from our backpacking stay in Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Somewhere past Indian Gardens the rubber soles of my hiking boots started separating from the leather boot. Needless to say, if they totally separated, hiking with 1 foot bare would have been difficult.

We stopped at the next water station and found there was a box there that kept supplies for hikers. In that box were rolls of duct tape as well as blankets / food and other items. I wrapped a few layers around my boot and sole to bind them together. It held for the remaining 3 miles and got me thru my hike. I try to always keep a role around me in my travels since then.

Hittenstiehl · 11-15-2018, 11:35 AM

GOUSC

I used it in exactly the same way when a boot I had not worn in the past season separated in the glue area of the insole. Luckily I had several rolls of flat-pack duct tape with me and I made an Ace bandage on my boot and hiked the rest of the day with no problems.

Our most common uses these days for the silver duct tape is keeping our vintage airstreams together when we travel down the road :-)

Things to never be without, duct tape, bailing wire, a fire source and a knife.

I love when I refer to it as hundred-mile-an-hour tape and somebody still knows what I'm talking about.

rowiebowie · 11-15-2018, 12:06 PM

And more proof you only need 2 tools. WD-40 and duct tape.

If it doesn't move and it should, us the WD-40.

If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape.

rmkrum · 11-15-2018, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Hittenstiehl

GOUSC

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I love when I refer to it as hundred-mile-an-hour tape and somebody still knows what I'm talking about.

Even better, I used to have a roll of the Navy's famous "500-mile-an-hour" tape. Was thick green material with stickup that was used to cover flack holes in the wings of F-4J fighters. Yes it would stay on at ridiculous speeds, and took great violence and evil solvents to get if back off...to do real repairs.

Duct tape is a piker compared to that stuff...I've been using the Gorilla brand stuff lately. It's the 'dark side' of duct tape--comes only in black fabric backing, and is very tenacious stuff. I'm sure it can hold the universe together...