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@Charok1

3 жыл бұрын

I don't use duct tape either. I like the fiberglass packaging tape that is stronger and has better glue. For writing/marking I use masking/painters tape.

@Richard_Nickerson

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterpopp48 Furze*

@shaymorcormick8743

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it be because of the amount of surface flesh you've lost using it for mythbusters. Haha used to work doing hvac and so many people tried to use duct tape. It never sticks. My problem with duct tape us that the vast majority of duct tape out there is cheap off brand crap.

@paradox6427

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Adam, oh no fighting words, lol j/k thats my level just use duct tape your better then me, lol

@xuthnet

3 жыл бұрын

I'll say this in the pinned comment so it might actually be seen. "duct tape" was originally duck cloth mated with an adhesive. Thus "duck tape". This then morphed in usage (because that's how english works) into "duct tape". But if you actually know anything about ductwork, duck tape is the absolute worst thing you can put on them.

I know from experience that it's terrible at patching up ducks too!

@michaelramon2411

3 жыл бұрын

...Adam's still mad he didn't get to do the "disguise yourself as a pumpkin and drag ducks underwater" myth, isn't he...?

@cafenightster4548

3 жыл бұрын

@DANIEL DEWEESE Foil-tape is trash for flexible duct, but alright for hard duct. Shurtap/sealing tape is great for flexible duct. Whenever I see duct tape, it's usually all tattered and basically falling off.

@robertsettles2180

3 жыл бұрын

You just need to be more careful with your ducks! Lol

@johanandersson7382

3 жыл бұрын

That I would have payed money to see!

@imdonkeykonga

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha!!!

as a janitor who's spent god knows how many hours scraping duct tape residue off furniture with a razor blade, i am so thankful you're speaking out on this issue

@WhereMyPants

2 жыл бұрын

Alcohol and a rag do wonders.

@Voltaic_Fire

2 жыл бұрын

There's got to be a better way of doing that.

@fregyt

2 жыл бұрын

🐐

@BiggusDickus79

2 жыл бұрын

@@WhereMyPants Also acetone (nail varnish remover)

@minifishy7162

2 жыл бұрын

There's special liquid meant for stickers you can get and it should work. J leave it on for like 5 minutes come back, and it wipes right off easy.

i'm just mesmerized by the giant, mechanized swiss army knife in the back

@Frostburnphoenix

2 жыл бұрын

Oh what have you done now I can't stop looking

@fartingfury

2 жыл бұрын

He did two episodes on fixing that, which I enjoyed. The intro to the second one was quite surprising🙂

@Dartagn

2 жыл бұрын

Someone said below he did videos on it, so he probably goes over the history of it but any knife-shop in a mall in the 90s/2000s would have had one of those on display. They are very cool.

@sheeperskipps

2 жыл бұрын

woah, didn’t even see it

@stocxt

2 жыл бұрын

there's a outdoor supply store in Cambridge Massachusetts that has one of these in the window

It's such a weird thing but I'll say, I love that you keep your moments to compose thoughts in opposed to constant jump cuts. Also can tell you actually care about the things you make videos about, absolutely love it

@cymond

2 жыл бұрын

Jump cuts are horrible. Legal Eagle can't go more that 8 seconds between jump cuts, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It's *so* jarring!

@tylerhenne

2 жыл бұрын

I came across your comment as he took a moment. Such perfect timing. Jump cuts I agree are annoying

@wck

Ай бұрын

You can tell someone is horrible at speaking when they need to rely heavily on jump cuts. There's some big KZreadrs that can't even get through a single sentence without stitching together 2-3 jump cuts. It's wild that after years of doing it professionally, they just never get good at talking to a camera.

@user-wk4ee4bf8g

Ай бұрын

Yesssss! I hate jump cuts, no idea why people think that is better than making little mistakes or thinking silently for a bit. All that stuff adds a real human feel, too much editing removes that feel.

"Gaffer tape is like duct tape went to college and learned how to do it's job properly." I have never agreed more with a statement. Gaff tape for the win!!

@dominikhaberstock

2 жыл бұрын

Professional Gaffer here. I can 100% agree! The film industry runs on this stuff. I still carry around some Gorilla tape just in case I need something with more Adhesive power that can leave a residue. And a roll of the Cheap shit, in case someone wants to borrow it… in my experience the roll never comes back😅

@ashakydd1

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, real gaffer tape is amazing and so useful.

@citybuilder-mi5ux

2 жыл бұрын

So true

@SammyGArt

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominikhaberstock I was just gonna say my gaff usually walks away and never comes back. give em the crappy one !! 2 thumbs up there lol

@MrGreghome

2 жыл бұрын

Shoot.... I've always referred to both as just duct tape...

I love how the one person I've ever heard say out loud that he hates duct tape, is the one keeping hundreds of rolls of the stuff in a sealed storage container.

@TheBasil36

3 жыл бұрын

Who else would know better?

@DanielLCarrier

3 жыл бұрын

That's why he's not unsealing them.

@WayneWerner

3 жыл бұрын

He's trying to keep them from escaping

@Toinepel

3 жыл бұрын

Gaffer-tape

@CaBarry374

3 жыл бұрын

How else to best torture a product than to not use it?

Interesting point of culture: when I was young (about 30 years ago), duct tape was basically unheard of in the UK awareness, gaffer tape was the taping solution people referred to. Duct tape really only entered my awareness somewhere in the mid-90s as the internet became more prevalent and US culture became imported faster, and I actually remember a conversation that went along the lines of “what’s duct tape?” “well, it’s basically gaffer tape for Americans”.

@fish3977

2 жыл бұрын

as a finn duct tape is often called gaffer's / roadie's tape and that term makes you think of the silvery stuff even tho proper gaffer's tape is still in vide use. the two are just seen as the same thing by common folk

@thumb5225

2 жыл бұрын

I recently watched some Taskmaster and they kept mentioning “gaffer tape”. I just figured it was duct tape for the Europeans XD

@tomrogue13

Ай бұрын

The Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show might have something to do with that 😂😂😂

I used to be very pro-duct tape, until I worked for this one company that put on road races (marathons & 5ks and such). And they used 3M's 3903 vinyl tape for everything. It's incredible. Sometimes it's marketed as duct tape but it's not the same at all. It peels off completely clean, it has small parallel ridges so it's way easier to tear with your fingers, it comes in every color of the rainbow, you can write on it and it doesn't smear as much as duct tape, and it sticks pretty well to things that are dusty or dirty or cold. It's not that much more expensive than ordinary duct tape and you can get it at basically any home depot (or similar) store. Fantastic for labeling stuff, warehouse or pantry organization, color coding things, and anything outdoors. I would never go back duct tape. But I'm curious now how it compares to gaffer tape.

@Helladamnleet

Ай бұрын

3M literally calls it duct tape lol

@Quasar0406

Ай бұрын

​@@Helladamnleetthey mentioned that in the comment... two years ago

@AllUpOns

Ай бұрын

Compared to normal duct tape, gaff tape probably has a slightly weaker level of adhesion, but is way more user-friendly. It's easier to pull of the right amount and tear it without it sticking to itself. Once it's attached, the adhesive doesn't melt or slide around as much, removing it is way easier, and it leaves less residue when you do. Last but probably least, it's usually a matte black finish, which makes it easier to hide and/or paint over (good on a stage production).

Duct tape is the "jack of all trades, master of none" of materials. It's never the best thing to use but it'll do the job until you can do it properly.

@sleepdeep305

3 жыл бұрын

Which is what all tape is in all honesty. Tape is just never a reliable enough adhesive for anything even semi permanent, so I'll take the mediocre performance for ease of access and cheapness. No way I'm dishing for a more expensive tape that I inevitably won't get the most use out of

@Unicorn161

3 жыл бұрын

It is very versatile and that is it's strength.

@leucocephala

3 жыл бұрын

I think of it as a motor-sailer, which is a 1/2 motorboat 1/2 sailboat and it doesn't do either very well. But generally it'll get you where you need to go, just not very efficiently or gracefully. I wonder what Adam's take is on WD-40, which is the yin to duct tape's yang?

@Ozzy_2014

2 жыл бұрын

@@leucocephala WD-40 is white lithium grease.

@sanderd17

2 жыл бұрын

@@sleepdeep305 Some tapes are very good at sealing stuff. Like aluminium tape for making ducts airtight (as Adam mentions), or strong plastic tape for making the vapor barrier on thermal insulation airtight. These tapes are made and used for very specific purposes, and are expected to hold on for years. It's not meant to hold something together, or apply a structural force. But they're great for sealing in dry environments.

Their desert island summary feels like it fits perfectly here "Duct tape is not the best solution for everything, but it is an okay solution for just about anything"

@bennyboy229

3 жыл бұрын

And adam isn't the kind of guy who wants okay solutions

@IaCthulhuFthagn

3 жыл бұрын

The thing is, unlike other staple poor solutions to vast numbers of problems (like zip ties, compressed air, or WD-40), duct tape is not the perfect solution for any problem, or indeed even a good one.

@primeoetzand

3 жыл бұрын

What’s your profile picture from?

@HighlanderNorth1

3 жыл бұрын

@@primeoetzand Can you guess where my profile pic comes from?

@HighlanderNorth1

3 жыл бұрын

😊👍 Immediately after I read this video's title, I predicted that Adam would mention aluminum foil tape(AFT from here onward). Also, I knew for certain that's what he was going to recommend as soon as he began criticizing duct tape's ineffectiveness at sealing ducts. I don't work in construction or HVAC, but I discovered AFT by chance in the mid 2000s, and I always carry a roll of it with me. AFT is not a "miracle cure", but its significantly better than duct tape in a LOT of applications. Anyone who's ever used regular aluminum foil knows that you can easily "mold" it to fit things. AFT is even better, because not only is it mold-able, its adhesive backing ensures that it remains tightly molded to whatever object its being used on. It does not dry rot and disintegrate like duct tape and its surface is impermeable. It comes in varying widths and thicknesses. I've even purchased AFT that had both thicker aluminum and MUCH thicker adhesive backing material, where the aluminum was 2 - 3x thicker than standard, AND the adhesive backing material was approx 2mm thick, rubberized, and with extra strong adhesive properties.

Remember when people used to use colorful and patterned duct tape to make wallets and things? Good times.

@mackenziecole4838

Ай бұрын

Multiple couples at my high school did matching duct tape prom dresses and suits

@thefutureisnowoldman7653

Ай бұрын

They still do

I miss this energy and joy when you were on mythbusters. But I saw the joy and energy fade in the last episodes. I was kinda glad to see it end when I saw the heart and joy from the show was gone. And saw the money drive from discovery. It’s great seeing you explode with joy in these episodes again. That’s why I loved the show so much was your energy and passion. 👍

You could totally open up that crate of duct dape, sign each one, and sell them to fund a big project

@m000sej00se

3 жыл бұрын

Or donate the money to charity. I'd totally buy a roll signed by Adam. I don't think he'd wanna sign the tape tho lol

@graph77

3 жыл бұрын

" I hate DuckTape, Adam Savage"

@MrShadowpanther3

3 жыл бұрын

@@graph77 Lol, might be the only "Good" thing to do with Duct Tape is auction it off and donate the money to a good cause.

@dcan911

3 жыл бұрын

Totally.

@russellhltn1396

3 жыл бұрын

Most anything is better than having it age in storage (and having to pay for the storage).

As a professional stage manager, there's never been a problem we couldn't solve in some way with gaff tape: ripped pants, broken props, set pieces that broke mid-show, re-soleing shoes....love the stuff.

@mal2ksc

3 жыл бұрын

I had a piece of black gaffer tape covering a rip in the cover of my instrument case. The bandleader managed to split the seam right up the middle of his trousers half an hour before a show, and I crudely patched the situation with a stapler and that piece of gaffer tape. I covered the hole when I got home and added another couple feet of tape where there was no particular need for it, just in case. Most (but not all) of it ended up drying out and leaving a mess, but I just covered the scar of scraping it off with another piece.

@thespicemelange4536

3 жыл бұрын

I repaired a broken plastic hinge on my vacuum canister with gaff tape. What was supposed to be a temporary repair job until the next weekend when I could do a more permanent repair, the bloody gaff tape “hinge” has lasted about 8-9 years. Still works to this day.

@diarykeeper

3 жыл бұрын

Some make entire shoes from it...

@Icehso140

3 жыл бұрын

Can you fix bad acting with gaff tape?

@KatieMoshier

3 жыл бұрын

@@Icehso140 no, just loud actors 😉🤐

What Adam says makes sense but only from the point of view: - of someone working in a workshop - of someone wealthy enough to have all the type of glue / fixing tools he wants But if you are in a situation where the amount of tools you can have is limited, duct tape (or duck tape) is the way to go. I won't bore you with all the stories where duct tape saved the day, because I guess we all have lived similar ones. Some repairs I made with duct tape were permanent (usually with the tougher Gorilla Tape) and are still holding after many years; some others are temporary, they hold until it is time to make a more serious repair. In short duct tape is WONDERFUL and I love it despite being imperfect.

I always loved watching the MIT engineering challenges where multiple teams got a bag of identical stuff and had to accomplish a mission in the best way with it.

Someone needs to make a compilation of all the times Adam goes 'Oh wait! Hold on a second!!" And runs off screen to get something, and then edit in sounds of crashing and clanging and glass breaking as he looks for the thing as if he's digging through piles of junk to find what he's looking for. I think that'll be hilarious to see. Edit: I didn't think this would get this much attention. I guess I'll be the one to make it. I'm not sure how long it'll take but I'll do it and let all of you know when it's up. Thank you

@ogelsmogel

3 жыл бұрын

"Adam Savage out of context" 😄

@kevinlienert1693

3 жыл бұрын

@@ogelsmogel yes!

@sketchyAnalogies

3 жыл бұрын

This comment needs more attention, so here's a comment for the algorithm

@CyberdyneSystemsSkynet

3 жыл бұрын

Yes please.

@DLRudder

3 жыл бұрын

The banging and crashing is usually already included.

"GT is like DT actually learned how to do its job." That sir, is priceless, and 100% true.

@awkwardtaco1591

3 жыл бұрын

And t rex tape is even better

@mysticwizard1943

3 жыл бұрын

The "went to college" part stung a lil

@GreyAcumen

3 жыл бұрын

honestly, in this era, it's more like it went to a reputable trade school.

@IanWard

3 жыл бұрын

And it costs like it went to college. 😅

@sleepdeep305

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanWard Fucking tell me about it! Crazy shit

Adam, you are a beacon of logic in a chaotic and irerrational world. Thank you for everything you do, please don't stop.

What I’ve always said is “Duct tape isn’t a great, long-term solution for anything. But it is a pretty good, short-term solution for just about everything.”

@tristanridley1601

Ай бұрын

Except after that your item is permanently covered in that terrible adhesive.

Thank you for having subtitles, makes life as a deaf person so much more accessible and enjoyable. Mythbusters in the UK always had subtitles and was one of the only programs of discvoery that did.

@marcusdamberger

2 жыл бұрын

Is closed captioning not common in the UK? Just about evey tv show and sports event has captioning here in US now. Even ten years ago, captioning was super common. Even old shows made before captioning was invented have since been captioned for syndication. Nearly all local news is captioned, usually just from the script vs real-time captioning of news, national news is always live captioned. Its quite handy at times for people who are not hard of hearing, noisy environment, or with the volume turn down. So you don't disturb others, but still want to follow along.

@PyroPandaMan

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusdamberger It seems the communications act of 2003 made subtitles on all nationally broadcasted television required.

@jaymzwooten

2 жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, Adam himself has a history of hearing loss. I wonder if his personal history is part of the decision to have CC for this channel.

@Voltaic_Fire

2 жыл бұрын

Things have gotten much better fortunately.

@xEvilRaptorx

2 жыл бұрын

@@jaymzwooten that history might include explosives?

Absolutely. "Gaff tape is the tape of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as duct tape, but a more elegant tape for a more civilized age."

@dinespetersen8711

3 жыл бұрын

Gaff tape is like the force. It has a bright side and a dark side, and it binds the universe together.

@lauriedepaurie

3 жыл бұрын

The secret to 90% off movie and stage magic: gaff tape and black fabric.

@carlodave9

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. But why don't they sell it in hardware stores? Only photography & production tech stores (and online). If Home Depot shoppers only knew what they were missing. Then again, maybe it's best they don't.

@squange

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlodave9 There are a handful of hardware stores in midtown Manhattan (and I'd imagine in Studio City in LA) that carry it - mainly because most of their clientele are industry professionals. Fun fact - it comes in all kinds of colors, not just the traditional black roll. I've used mahogany brown gaff to repair leather goods and florescent pink and yellow in tiny strips to spike set pieces.

@lauriedepaurie

3 жыл бұрын

@@carlodave9 I don't know whether this applies internationally, but usually it's accessable through larger music stores aswell. It's probably a tool that's seen as a specialty item for now, and if demand only comes from musicians, stage techs and people in film, than it doesn't make sense to distribute it outside of that market.

You just validated so much of my childhood. This video explains so many things. Thank you.

Speaking of that Aluminum tape, the apiarist (thank you Elizabeth Newell) reminded me of something else... That Aluminum tape stays in a locked cupboard at work so it won't disappear, because it is FANTASTIC for quickly and temporarily shimming up things. It's a consistent thickness, and you can stack layers and they won't compress much. It's the bomb for getting things going in a hurry, just don't expect it to last forever in a high-vibration situation.

As a theater tech I was screaming about the joys of gaff for years, thanks for the vindication !!

@jwec9867

3 жыл бұрын

Raymond Holt: VINDICATION!

@reallyweirdperson1

3 жыл бұрын

Same here! I was so pleased to hear that Adam hates duct tape as well. I think it’s basically a universal thing if you’ve worked behind the scenes in film or theatre. You grow a hatred for duct tape after picking it off of things because it rotted.

@jclinew

3 жыл бұрын

Gaffers tape is fantastic.

@jraw745

3 жыл бұрын

Nashy 357 for life baby

@VincentBrouillard

3 жыл бұрын

Same ! people don't know how bad duct tape is until they learn about gaffer.

As a beekeeper, I adore that aluminum foil tape. Sticks great even on slightly wet surfaces, bees can’t chew through it, doesn’t fall off in hear, etc. I want an episode on this prince of tapes!

@Redfern962

3 жыл бұрын

Bees…have teeth?

@elizabethnewell3133

3 жыл бұрын

@@Redfern962 just mandibles

@leucocephala

3 жыл бұрын

We make blocks for native bees and we use it to seal the cracks!

@Spthomas47

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellsidebottom9271 it's pretty awesome but it's not durable and the best applications are on things that won't get bumped, stuff slid over it or the joint/crack it's covering moves. Sticks amazingly though. Edit- it's also on the pricy side.

@fuzzythoughts8020

2 жыл бұрын

@@mitchellsidebottom9271 try cleaning the surface with some isopropyl alcohol first

I have a love-hate relationship with duct tape and WD-40. If I had to build a toolkit with ridiculous space constraints they're the first things I'd include... but they're also the first things I'd remove once the constraints were relaxed. They're almost never the RIGHT tools for the job, but I can't bring myself to banish them entirely from my shop and boxes. I have a similar relationship with multitools and to a much lesser degree, adjustable wrenches.

Gaffer tape is my go-to as a musician, too. No residue from short-term use, great for holding down cables on the stage and also for attaching microphones to brass instruments without accidentally removing lacquer.

As an Australian I always thought that when MythBusters did a 'duct tape' episode they actually meant gaffer tape. It's a revelation to find that they didn't, as we don't even use duct tape for ducts. Gaffer tape is in the Aussie nomenclature as the go to tape.

@drops2cents260

3 жыл бұрын

Well, if I remember correctly from the first duct tape episode, that stuff was originally intended only to seal ammo crates against moisture. Which means duct tape was never intended as a long-term solution and wasn't intended for most of the things it is used today either, but only proved itself to be reasonably to quite useful over time for quick and dirty solutions for a number of problems when there are no tools available which were designed for those problems. That's why I always have a few rolls of duct tape in stock as well as gaffer and aluminium foil tape - because it's the best compromise for situations where you don't have the time to come up with a permanent fix, but just need to fix things for a short time until you have the time to come with a more permanent solution - and that's actually the job in which duct tape does quite well. For instance, last year I had to fix an air duct in my flat on a saturday evening, my supply of aluminium foil tape had run out and the hardware stores were closed until monday. So I improvised with DT and it worked well until monday evening when I had restocked on AFT and thus could replace my temporary fix. So, DT is a versatile tool which on one hand isn't a perfect solution, but on the other hand is good enough for short-term solutions that work until you can get your hands on the tools designed to do the actual job (i.e. AFT, gaffer tape, zip-ties, clamps or whatever).

@drumboarder1

3 жыл бұрын

Sorta, super cheap only had duct tape if I remember correctly but I don't know about repco or bunnings. Found a bunch of duct in the dumpster at a mates construction site too, after which was the first time I used it and I can say it absolutely shits on what supercheap sells (unsurprisingly) EDIT: also should mention I've never seen duct tape with thread in it

@isstuff

3 жыл бұрын

Plenty of duct tape in OZ. And yes it is mostly disappointment. Gaffatape is so much batter.

@curtisbme

3 жыл бұрын

Americans don't use it for ducts either, it is against code. You have to use metal tape and/or a duct mastic (they call it "pookie" though no one who calls it that seems to know the origin).

@HipposHateWater

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody (in the US at least) uses "duct tape" for actual duct-work either. (For that, that first roll of shiny aluminum-lookin' tape he held up is all that is used.) All it's ever used for here is as a general-purpose method of temporarily immobilizing shit that shouldn't move long enough to get the job done, basically. Dunno how the name shifted to "duct", but apparently the original name was in fact, "duck", and that was because the original backing material was plain cotton duck canvas.

Adam: “I hate duct tape...” Scott Manley: “can you build a spacesuit out of duct tape?”

@evilplaguedoctor5158

3 жыл бұрын

I think Adam's point is, yes you can, but you shouldn't.

@carstenk2552

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Scotts position is mostly: yeah, you could and here is how, but mostly it's weird and probably unpleasent and depending on your breathing apparatus you could get a job done or not. I got the impression that he wanted to inform why you need spacesuits and can not use just a scuba mask or something like that.

@jtbwilliams

3 жыл бұрын

@@evilplaguedoctor5158 that was Scott's point too.

@harkonen1000000

3 жыл бұрын

@@carstenk2552 Do a job, yes. Survive doing a job, pretty much no.

@WacticalTactical

3 жыл бұрын

Our scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. -Dr. Ian Malcolm

I'm a costumer and I personally use duct tape as a way to create patterns for any carved foam pieces that need to be covered with some sort of fabric. It's decently cheap and really flexible so it can get into corners and go around curves so much smoother then most tapes I've tried in the past. But I've never used it as actually tape lol.

Oh, thank god! Now I know I 'm not the only one. And you even included 2 of my favorite utility tapes in this video, aluminum tape and gaffers tape. If you want it to stop leaking use aluminum tape, if leakage isn't an issue use gaffers tape. Thank you for telling the world that there are superior tapes out in the world. Sure, most of them don't have quite the range of usability as duct tape, but I'm so glad that a professional has revealed to the world that duct tape is, was, and always will be the worst tape to use for the purpose it was originally intended for; ducts. Gaffers tape is just as good in most cases, and it is so much easier to work with.

Adam: *Makes a zombie net out of duct tape* Zombie: *breaks through the net without breaking a sweat* Adam; 'And that's why I made a second net out of gaffer tape'

@Mr_T_Badger

3 жыл бұрын

And then Adam realised that the particular zombie is Jamie. “Well, I’m screwed.”

@mrwaffles1394

3 жыл бұрын

Do zombies sweat?

@Tinderchaff

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrwaffles1394 Dare you to get close enough to find out 😉. My reasoning was the they were humans once so they must still sweat, right?

@paulcoy9060

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, if you want to fight zombies, you have to be willing to spend more money. Gaffer tape is about 40 bucks at my store, and duct tape is 6.

@punishedharambe4367

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, a duct tape net would hold up better. The adhesive is stronger than gaff tape.

Scott Manley a few minutes ago: *You can basically build a space suite out of duct tape* Adam Savage: *I hate duct tape*

@mattsnyder4754

3 жыл бұрын

No. All Adam is saying is that you can build a BETTER space suit with different tape.

@trcxsa

3 жыл бұрын

More clues on how the algorithm works...... interesting

@ghoti221

3 жыл бұрын

Duct tape is like a Swiss Army knife - other specific tools are better, but duct tape is what I reach for if I need to patch something fast

@DavidLindes

3 жыл бұрын

@@trcxsa it’s not just about the algorithm. This video ad Scott’s were posted on the same day... kzread.info/dash/bejne/opijr7GRptTQkrw.html

@joshentheosparks7492

3 жыл бұрын

A space suit might be the ideal oxygen free environment for duct tape! Until it disolves in sunlight and turns to peanut brittle

When I watch this.. I can't believe two brilliant guys like Adam and Jamie were able to work together so well for so many years.

Gaffer tape blew my mind when I first used it. Duct tape is the cheap and cheerful way to do something less-than-well.

Lighting & audio tech here. You grow a hatred for duct tape after picking it off of XLR and DMX cables because some asshole decided to tape them down with copious amounts of the stuff, which proceeded to rot in the sun. I’ve discovered a love for both gaff tape and for isopropyl alcohol.

@andycanfixit

3 жыл бұрын

I have literally tossed cables like that in the trash because the effort to clean them was going to be more than the effort to make a new cable. I hate wasting crap, but sometimes I'd rather pull out the soldering iron and toss together a new cable with neutrik ends than have to spend hours cleaning off residue.

@TheMijman

3 жыл бұрын

Man, IPA solves so many problems, and always cleans up more than I think it would. About every other time I try and use IPA for cleaning something, or removing something, basically "I wonder if IPA might do this", 1/2 the time it works perfectly.

@ian1352

3 жыл бұрын

And if isopropyl alcohol won't take the goo off then Zippo lighter fluid will. Generally I've found that once it degrades and comes off what is left behind isn't sticky, so I just leave it. Unlike electrical tape which is truly awful.

@tomc.5704

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMijman IPA is awesome. If water won't dissolve it, IPA probably will. Chemistry nerd tangent: And if neither water nor IPA will dissolve it, then you're looking at acetone (nail polish remover) or hexane -- but at that point you're working with industrial degreasers that can permeate most gloves and are toxic to work with. What substance you use has to do with the hydrophobic and polar/nonpolar properties of the substance. Water is VERY polar, it has an oxygen atom and just a few measly hydrogens to counterbalance it. Hexane is entirely made of carbon and hydrogen, so it has no desire to interact with water but will play with grease. It'll also dissolve some plastics. But isopropyl alcohol -- that hits the sweet spot. It's still got the oxygen atom, so it can interact with water and water soluble materials. But it's also got three carbon atoms to even things out. Not enough to dissolve or permeate most plastic or rubber, but enough to wipe away most grease. IPA is awesome.

@TheMijman

3 жыл бұрын

​@@tomc.5704 Well that's far too much in depth for me. I work in special effects/props, so use various thinners and chemicals now and then. But always have a little spray bottle of IPA on hand. I wish I knew enough chemistry to work out what will attack the base material I need to clean, I generally start gentle and crank it up through stuff I know wont eat into it. Reading up helps, but I wish I had the time to learn from scratch. Maybe I will some day.

I did a 'temporary' patch on my car with Gaffer tape when the roof was leaking that remained in place for quite a few years. The car finally died before I got around to doing a more 'permanent' fix. (Old Russian proverb: There is nothing as permanent as a temporary solution)

@BakerPeter

3 жыл бұрын

This is me, right now wondering how long I should really keep it on there! Guess I shouldn't worry about it 😅

@peterfox2565

3 жыл бұрын

The reverse also tends to be true "nothing is as temporary as that which is called permanent"

@hughoxford8735

3 жыл бұрын

My wing mirror has been held on by Gorilla tape for about 18 months. It's fine.

@drmodestoesq

3 жыл бұрын

Let me just say that I am politically a Centrist. But Milton Friedman once said.... Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

@skrimper

3 жыл бұрын

@@hughoxford8735 my front bumper is held on by 6 strips of gorilla tape. All the clips that held it on broke but one, the tapes taking like 90% of the bumpers weight no problem lol. Drive down the highway and in storms all the time too

I could seriously watch this guy explain anything and find it interesting. Besides his smarts, its a god given gift. The ability to make anything sound interesting.... its just mind boggling, im seriously baffled. He could explain something as boring as tape, EASY HALF A MILLION VIEWS. SAY WHAT? WHO GOES VIRAL EXPLAINING DUCT TAPE? mythbusters would've never worked without him. I ENJOYED MY MYTHBUSTERS WHEN GROWING UP.... THANKS FOR ALL THOSE HOURS OF QUALITY CONTENT.

House wrap seam tape is the most underrated tape. It's super strong but stretchy non-woven fabric with adhesive that literally won't come off without ripping either the tape or the substrate. It sticks to basically anything as long as it's clean. It's weathertight, and works great to fix small holes or rips in jackets, tents or tarps.

As an audio engineer, I am always here for the promotion of gaffer tape.

@pommefrites

3 жыл бұрын

As a museum tech, same.

@TeatroCalamari

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yes.

@michaelcritter7933

3 жыл бұрын

I have fallen for cloth tape hard in recent years (tv tech director)

@E4S65

3 жыл бұрын

same here, Gaff is amazing

"Gaffer tape is like duct tape went to college and actually learned how to do its job" As a former stage tech and current G&E, this had me rolling... Wait, I'm not camera.

Yeah, my go to tape as a construction worker is actually Stego tape... Stuffs kinda... Pricy, but you can tape concrete chucks together and they stay with that stuff

5:24 Another good word like kludge is the word bodge. Tom Scott talked about it in one of his videos and I've loved it ever since.

Duct Tape: Jack-of-all-trade, master of none Adam: I need none of that, I've got a shop full of masters of something. Me: I can't afford or even store even a fraction of this stuff, duct tape is pretty good!

@buckysinister

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Duct tape is a great all-purpose tool for people who only need to make occasional temporary repairs (which is most of us). If I'm only going to have one kind of tape in the toolbox, it's going to be duct tape.

@MisterMakerNL

3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@ElectroDFW

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, for those of us who like to buy things in-store, we're SOL finding any of that specialty s*** while getting our groceries, or at the local hardware store.

@davidhopkins6861

3 жыл бұрын

For the record, the actual quote is- Jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one

@lewiswebb2753

3 жыл бұрын

Anything you can do with duct tape you can do better with gaffers though.

Thank you for leaving in the pauses where Adam takes a beat to collect thoughts or think.

@adamsavage356

3 жыл бұрын

Hello

@RChero1010

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamsavage356 when the imposter is exhibiting suspicious behavior

@Model3GenerativeANdroid

3 жыл бұрын

Hello

I just realised that I have masking tape, electrical tape, regular sticky tape, and that sealing tape that plumbers use, but no duct tape. I don't think I've ever bought it at all.

Been thinking of switching to Gaffing/Gaffer tape for my GP tuff tape needs. Thanks for the video, and thanks to Aurelio For the question.

"The film industry runs on this stuff" As a high school theatre tech, this made me snicker. The whole operation is held together with it.

@wobblysauce

3 жыл бұрын

Most people do not want to know how the sausage is made.

@eveljkov

3 жыл бұрын

ain't just HS theaters either..."gaff tape isn't a permanent fix either..." I would put money on there being decade+ old strips of gaff tape holding SOMETHING together in most theaters across the world.

@lmaoroflcopter

3 жыл бұрын

@@wobblysauce it's literally used everywhere from marking stages for actors to the most heinous crime I've seen of holding a full lighting fixture in place. H&S be damned, the show must go on (in defence, it did have a chain to hold it if it failed).

@chrisschack9716

3 жыл бұрын

"Oops, tripping hazard here" *tape tape tape* "Okay, fixed till teardown"

@Blacklight8001

3 жыл бұрын

@@eveljkov There's gaff tape holding an XLR cable on the wall. Im certain it's been there a decade or more, just by the dust stuck around it...

The Red Green Show helped popularize the idea that you can do anything, and everything, with duct tape. lol

@K31TH3R

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if I'd see a Red Green reference. I was just thinking "no one show this to Red, he will drive down from Canada duct tape you to his van, then bring you back to the lodge and feed you to Moose Thompson."

@trump45and2zig-zags

3 жыл бұрын

Wow havent seen that forever

@stianl6035

3 жыл бұрын

Keep your stick on the ice!

@tiamat9360

3 жыл бұрын

Its amazing how often i see references to red, i love that show

@waterbottle4782

3 жыл бұрын

If the women can't find you handsome at least find you handy.

I agree. In my previous home and current, a previous owner actually used duct tape on the ducts.... ugh. I do kind of like the gorilla tape, but I'm not sure what for quite honestly. It is useful on moving boxes. The strong adhesive keeps it on the box, and the strength keeps the box contents from falling out the bottom.

I have all 306 episodes of Red Green, a few wallets, and autographed books!

I used duct tape to fashion an improvised wheel nut once, that was when I realised it’s not about how good duct tape is at what it’s meant for but how good it is when it’s all you have

@Thros1

2 жыл бұрын

Duck tape is not duct tape

@Jabberwockybird

2 жыл бұрын

Unless it's Duck brand. So it can be both

@Galactis1

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's on the moon as a repair item. :)

I really appreciate seeing Adam take time to think of just the right words to say. Too many jump cuts between sentences is hard to coherently follow, and lots of vloggers speed through information faster than necessary and you don't feel what they're feeling when they're explaining something. Feels like I'm there listening to him talk to a bunch of people, keep it up

@cenciende9401

2 жыл бұрын

Cuts aren't hard to follow for normal people... It's audibly no different to not having the pause in the sentence, the only difference is the visual cut in the video.

@Gowerrr

2 жыл бұрын

@@cenciende9401 that's not true at all, most people edit out the breaths and force the sentences together, not allowing for pause of thought for the audience. If you don't notice it then you've gotten too used to a fast paced information world

@badbirdkc

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gowerrr I'm going to guess he didn't edit the video down because it was already short and it was less work. To each his own, but jump cuts don't bother me.

@firstname405

2 жыл бұрын

@@cenciende9401 "normal" 🤮 ableist

@Not-TheOne

2 жыл бұрын

YEAH! Exactly, like they edit out them even breathing!

I remember Red Green found out the hard way about the weaknesses of Duct Tape when his emergency roll, kept behind a fire alarm-style glass break box, turned to dust. :)

My dad was in the SeaBees during Vietnam and he said, Duct Tape had a couple of good "temporary" uses. One of which was taping up holes in planes and creating a "get home" fix for otherwise damaged ground machines. He called it, I think "500mph tape", but I see they call it "speed tape" today. Aside from that, he wasn't a big fan and never trusted it to last.

"Gaffer's tape is duct tape that went to college and learned how to do its job." I love that. I agree with your analysis of duct tape. I do use it on occasion, temperately. Gorilla is the best I've found.

@YTAG33

3 жыл бұрын

His response to the question is a bit odd in that all these types and brands of tape material he mentions would really be considered sub-types of duct tape in common language by most people. He is really just highlighting that commonly available types and brands are inferior.

@talyrath

3 жыл бұрын

After putting up a display where we used a LOT of gorilla tape to hold black fabric against gridwall, I learned the hard way that gorilla tape adhesive is strong enough to remove your fingerprints.

@sparrowhawke

3 жыл бұрын

@@talyrath I once made the mistake of dropping the loose end of a gorilla tape onto my hairy thigh. I have since switched to T-Rex tape. After I was done screaming, of course.

@lmaoroflcopter

3 жыл бұрын

@@YTAG33 they aren't. Gaffers tape isn't duct tape. It's usually fabric backed, matt, and hugely more adherant What you're effectively saying is duct tape is a sub category of sellotape/scotch tape which I'm sure you'd agree, it still isn't.

@shaggyrumplenutz1610

3 жыл бұрын

I bought some Gorilla brand double-sided tape and put up a plaque on a painted cinder lock wall. When I removed the plaque the tape literally ripped the paint off the wall along with a chunk of the concrete. Gorilla doesn't play around with their products.

My great grandmother lived through the invention of the automobile, the airplane, the computer, the internet... and her very serious opinion was that the greatest invention of her lifetime was duct tape.

@joshuadempsey5281

3 жыл бұрын

well she's entitled to a bad opinion lmao ;)

@orion7741

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuadempsey5281 she is correct though.

@Oggohoko

3 жыл бұрын

It's up there with sliced bread. I never came to a conclusion what is better actually.

@joshuadempsey5281

3 жыл бұрын

@@orion7741 nope lol

@TrekkerMoto

3 жыл бұрын

I was lucky enough to get to know my great great grandma who was born 1905 or 1906 (don't exactly remember she passed around her 100th birthday). Talking to her, it was just so hard to imagine, she was around 20 years before sliced bread! Literally! she got to grow up seeing the beginning of cars being commonplace. Honestly, while there was a lot of bad things in the last century, I think based on technological advancement alone, it was probably one of the coolest times to live through, although Im sure our great great grandchildren will say the same about us.

It’s true that everything that Duct Tape can do, can be done better by another product. However, Duct Tape can do so many things well enough, that it’s an absolutely essential resource for most households. If you don’t anticipate many problems that would be better solved by a specific alternative to Duct Tape, but are likely to encounter many different problems that could be solved with Duct Tape, then Duct Tape is a very useful tool.

That intermittent motion Swiss army knife in the background is awesome!

"gaffer tape is like duct tape went to college, and learned how to do its job" ---- YES!!!!

@mirawenya

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was the same thing! Gaffa tape we call it. Always translated it to duct tape. :o

@FactoryofRedstone

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirawenya same. Now I'm very confused what the difference is.

@mabamabam

3 жыл бұрын

@@FactoryofRedstone especially cause he then says "everyone knows what duct tape is". Well I though I did

@jullit31

3 жыл бұрын

@@FactoryofRedstone Gaffer tape usually has a matt surface, so it's less visible. On most surfaces it doesn't leave a sticky residue, at least if you don't leave it on for too long. And it's usually not quite as sticky as duct tape.

@FactoryofRedstone

3 жыл бұрын

@@jullit31 Thanks, that helps alot.

It's uncanny that you and Scott Manley would both upload videos about duct tape in less than an hour of each other. I watched his video first and thought to myself "Scott and Adam should have done a collaboration video about duct tape."

@Mu51kM4n

3 жыл бұрын

Hello fellow scott manley fan :) I just watched his vid before this

@feudiable

3 жыл бұрын

Haha came here to say the same:) I think they should team up for a myth-busters-style collaboration:D

@ghostthough7874

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@CJDarkRose

3 жыл бұрын

+1 on arriving here *right* after watching Scott Manley's video

@Linuxpunk81

3 жыл бұрын

I took a picture of my feed 😂 I thought it was funny too

The gaffer is great though duct has stretchy property to it. Duct is like "it works" maybe not best or ideal but works.

So glad you rep gaffa as the real stuff! I work on gigs, had a bit left behind from the end of Disney on Ice, keep it in my dirt bike and camping emergency kits. Also great for fixing torn stage black pants mid set-up! ;) If it's made of denim it's not the real deal :) Also I noticed the white 3M electrical tape in New Zealand is water "proof". I use it to label things where water is involved, lasts for a couple of years, if it's not warm water :)

As an industry tech professional, I still see red when I find a cable that someone has taped down (or worse, taped in a coil) with duck. I can feel the gooey mess it's going to leave on the insulation as I type this and just the thought of it is making me twitchy.

@KipdoesStuff

3 жыл бұрын

I have too, 'duct'.

@shermantank

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same about electrical tape

@s0nnyburnett

3 жыл бұрын

@@shermantank What's that? Time to go back and fix an old repair? Schmoo everywhere! Better grab a rag and some lighter fluid and clean that shit up.

@nonotreally1850

3 жыл бұрын

@@s0nnyburnett I second that, Naphthalene and lighter fluid are the only way to get that scunge off

@leucocephala

3 жыл бұрын

@@s0nnyburnett Release the schmoo!

CC: "The thing it's the worst at is literally its name Ducks it is horrendous on ducks don't ever use it for ducks... You want to seal up a duck?..." *runs away*

@BrunodeSouzaLino

2 жыл бұрын

Duct.

@nolansprojects2840

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrunodeSouzaLinothey were talking about the closed captions

@MCWaffles2003-1

2 жыл бұрын

@@BrunodeSouzaLino It's actually duck, not duct, since it originally was made of a cotton duck fabric. Never was intended for use with ducts. I think most people just assume no one would tape ducks but do need to tape ducts so they assume duck is a mispronunciation when its actually the intended word...

@alan5506

2 жыл бұрын

Oh damn you are right. This is hilarious

@felix.mp3639

2 жыл бұрын

@@MCWaffles2003-1 I thought it was called duck tape because when you peel a long strip of it off the roller very quickly, it sounds like a duck.

Gaffer tape is so good. I use it for a lot of things from placement markers for my camera gear/talent to mounting lav mics to clothing. It's also been holding my bumper on for the past 5 months lol

Thanks for the video, Adam! Definitely a surprising answer. Side-note, that suit of Beskar is amazing! :O

"Gaffer tape is like Duct Tape went to college and learned how to actually do its job" is great

love seeing that swiss army knife parading itself in the background and the pool ball on your mill.

@adamspecht5150

3 жыл бұрын

The irony of the Swiss Army knife in the background while Adam goes on a diatribe about duct tape is hilarious. If there were a McGuyver reference in this clip it would have been perfect

You know what’s hilarious is I’ve had this old sketch book I’ve used for the past 8 years and like 4 years ago the spine of the book ripped and I ended up using yellow Gaffer Tape to tape it back together and it is still holding it together to this day! 😂

I’m so glad it’s not just me. I hate duct tape with a passion. Mostly because of the residue it leaves everywhere but it really just isn’t much good at anything. I would use it to temporarily patch holes in kayaks or canoes to finish off a trip or something. Besides that I’m an electrical tape fan, you can use that for anything you can wrap around.

OMG! Adam said what I've been saying for over 35 years. "The thing duct tape does worst is taping ducts". So very true.

This is my favorite episode yet! "We don't use duct tape, we're professionals, we use Gaff tape!!!" My boss at the first special effects company I worked for when I was 18 years old.

When I did HVAC, we used regular black duct tape to seal together the inside duct, and then silver tape on the outside

Funny enough it wasn't even named for ducts in the first place. The term "duck tape" appears much earlier. It was originally named after "duck cloth" because it was made by applying a rubber adhesive to heavy cotton canvas.

For reference, the etymology of "duck tape" is that it was originally duck cloth with an adhesive added. And then it morphed to "duct".

@HariSeldon913

3 жыл бұрын

More people might know that if more people knew what duck cloth is. I'm not familiar with it.

@drmodestoesq

3 жыл бұрын

@@HariSeldon913 Cotton Duck (from Dutch doek,"linen canvas"), also simply duck, sometimes duck cloth or duck canvas - commonly called "canvas" outside the textile industry - is a heavy, plain-woven cotton fabric. There is also linen duck, which is less often used. Duck fabric is woven with two yarns together in the warp and a single yarn in the weft. Common uses of Duck include: shoes and sneakers tents sandbags homemade artist canvas for paintings aprons totes backpacks duffel bags handbags etc....

@HariSeldon913

3 жыл бұрын

@@drmodestoesq Thanks. I'm familiar with canvas, but wasn't familiar with duck cloth being another name for it.

@SnootchieBootchies27

3 жыл бұрын

Funny. And now there's a brand of duct tape called Duck. It's gone full circle

@xuthnet

3 жыл бұрын

Alternately just read the first two sections of the wikipedia article (apparently initially it was just strips of cotton duck) and some later variations had adhesive added. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

You got me jonesin' for a list of problems duct tape gets applied to and the proper materials for each.

@KairuHakubi

3 жыл бұрын

and also the situations where duct tape is actually appropriate.

@chrisherbert4454

3 жыл бұрын

@@KairuHakubi it’s only good for the trash can lol

i'm a big fan of Tesa cloth tape myself, especially for cable assemblies (it's used in automotive wire harnesses)

Probably my favorite duct tape story involves my car when I was in high school. I had dropped the car at the mechanic's shop with a not that I wanted him to repair the "damaged hose leaking oil". The mechanic called the house and my father answered, the said to me that he wanted to know which hose I thought was leaking oil. "The cylinder head is covered with oil. There is a hose that attaches right in the middle of the cylinder head. Right where it attaches, it is wrapped in duct tape that is also covered in oil. Does that cover why I thought he could figure that out?"

@johnd5398

2 жыл бұрын

* crickets *

"It's a triumph of engineering over the material." Me: *involuntary 'Mhmm!'*

@kittiekat1236

3 жыл бұрын

Is that not the ethos of mythbusters

@drops2cents260

3 жыл бұрын

@@kittiekat1236 Yep, that it is: "Okay, it's not pretty and won't work in the long term, but we need something for a quick and dirty fix _right now_ until we get our hands on the stuff we actually need".

We need Steve Smith of the Red Green Show to demonstrate just what a handyman can pretend to be able to make with duct tape.

@aaronanstett8987

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yea red green show was the shit

@robertbeaudry9872

2 жыл бұрын

He literally wrote a book...

@evanlindsey1100

2 жыл бұрын

I once saw an image macro of the Red Green guy, where WH40K space orks had taken a liking to this strange humie who could work miracles with the strange silvery material. Apparently he got on famously with them because they appealed to his 'DIY' spirit.

I use gaffers tape at work all the time and it is much better than duct tape. But, as Adam said, it will leave a residue and it will eventually become a gummy dried out mess. But it generally takes more time or heat to do that than duct tape does on the order of weeks or months rather than days. Even being diligent in our cable care, we still go through lots of Goo Gone cleaning off tape residue. Whenever possible we use Safcord, a canvas strip with Velcro on the underside. Works great on carpet and for some semi-permanent uses on hard flooring with a few strips of the other side of Velcro stuck down on it. That aluminum HVAC tape Adam mentioned is also great for all kinds of crafts. Stick a length of that on a cardboard box, poke a hole in it and you've got a pinhole camera.

my favourite is masking tape, it's strong enough for most household stuff, soft enough that it won't damage anything, lasts a while, can write on it so it's a cheap label.

''It's treason then''

@dirkcjelli

3 жыл бұрын

Not if it prospers :->

Ok, so Adam is not best friends with Jamie, and he doesn't even like duct tape. Next he'll tell us that, in fact, he DOES NOT reject our reality and substitute his own. Everything we know about the entertainment industry is a lie!

@AlanEggleston

3 жыл бұрын

Also, he probably no longer says "Failure is an option"--just wait!

@kodakincade8063

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂 this is amazing

@KenrickLeiba

3 жыл бұрын

Well to top it off that wasn’t even his line.

@kodakincade8063

3 жыл бұрын

@@KenrickLeiba ofc there would be one of you.

@edwardsmith7131

3 жыл бұрын

Next thing he'll tell us that Hollywood explosions are all fake 😁

Isn’t duct tape more of a “jack of all trades but master of none?”

As an architect, I'd recommend white artist tape. For modeling. Takes well to paint and a good modeling binder if you're careful applying it. But then the models we make are pretty fragile and don't take well to the rough and tumble of a prop or production set.

As a photographer, you always pack three backup solutions to any potential problem. The fourth is “gaff tape will find a way.“

@DrewNorthup

3 жыл бұрын

True that. However, often times the last few years my third is "Well, the static line actually reaches the ground, so f**k it!"

Last year, one of my theater friends gave me a graduation gift of gaffer's, spike, and glow tape. One of the best gifts I ever received

In decades as an outdoorer I was never disappointed and could always rely on those things: a reliable companion, a good knife, Paracord and - Panzerband. It’s so reliable, so versatile, so easy to handle and so hard to break or destroy. Panzerband replaces a lot of other materials and even tools. It fixes everything but relationships and heartache. But I'm sure they are working on that matter. Guess the genius that has invented the wheel was the same that later on invented Panzerband. Don’t know if it’ld work for Adam’s purposes but it’s for sure the multitool that should be found in every tool box no matter how small or big.

Back in highschool I went to the Thespian Festival every year, as a tech theater kid, and a gaff tape company had a display of damn near every color in the rainbow. Something like 30 or 40. And every width too. The actors didn’t even look at it, but we thought it was amazing.

Steve Smith(Red Green) would be shedding a tear right now. "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."

@TheActionBastard

3 жыл бұрын

tbf... none of that went really well... :P

@cenciende9401

2 жыл бұрын

*or men

@ComradeDerds

2 жыл бұрын

@@cenciende9401 you could turn it into any non binary if you wanted from the original saying if you want.

@ToonamiT0M

2 жыл бұрын

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

@firenado4295

2 жыл бұрын

@@cenciende9401 bruh thats not the quote though. have you even seen the show?

Adam's enthusiasm is so enjoyable to watch that I just sat through 7 minutes of "I don't like duct tape" 😂

Why would MythBusters fans be surprised? In the first episode of MythBusters, Jr., he angrily says "Hello old friend." after smelling some duct tape. That should have made it obvious.

Using tape to construct foam weapons opened my eyes to this. Hockey tape is now my go-to for most things duct tape used to do. It's even less sticky but it sticks to itself really well. I also like the nuance in your answer: I found that different brands of duct tape gained different reputations, and all of the duct-adjacent tapes are good to consider as alternatives depending on the situation.

*breaking news, the duct tape industry collapses over night mysteriously, more at 11*

@ianbuilds7712

3 жыл бұрын

we can only hope...

@jimmym3352

3 жыл бұрын

It still works well enough for my job... as a temporary solution. Long term it doesn't have that many uses. The heat from the machines I work on can weaken the grip of it, but it can sometimes still hold something if it's more remote and doesn't get too warm, but not if it's got too much load on it, or if it's too dusty (and our machines do get dusty).

@DaveJ188

3 жыл бұрын

Those millennials are at it again.

@edwardsmith7131

3 жыл бұрын

@cold media - *Dan Rather voice* The duct tape industry suffered simultaneous collapses due to using their own product to repair their buildings and equipment. It turns out that the tape in question was only holding together due to luck and not being looked at. As soon as people stopped believing in it and looked everything fell apart. As if Schrodinger's Cat was made of duct tape and we opened the box to look.

@Cold_Media

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardsmith7131 now this is the true journalism this country deserves!

this is prime material for the "Top Ten Anime Betrayals" meme category, either that or that Captain America screenshot everyone hates

@Tankerrex3

3 жыл бұрын

Hail Hydra

@oneirophon8912

3 жыл бұрын

What Captain America screenshot? The John Walker introduction?

Is it sad that I am jealous of his machining station in the background? solid grid table, clean and everything nice and organized, a solid vice... So nice.