Want to get them talking about you at the health club? Try this to get a tan that definitely won’t go unnoticed. Create a pattern of gaffers tape applied to your skin (tiger stripes work nicely) and then spend a day at the beach. When you remove the tape, the pattern you created will be […]
Actually, it was duct tape that “saved the grade”. Quick thinking by Edison Bruce saved a high school pal from an “F” when he showed up for the band’s concert without all the pieces of his uniform. Mr. Bruce was able to create a uniform collar, a bow tie and fake buttons using the duct […]
The Comsewogue Public Library in Port Jefferson Station, NY will offer a workshop on making your own duct tape flip flops. The instructor, Jamie Bendicksen, will offer the workshop May 19 at 7:00 PM and there is no cost. Click here for details. Can’t make it to the library? Click here for a “do it […]
Garret Sherman, a ninth grader from Louisiana, has turned a church craft project into a budding business. The duct tape cobbler is making shoes from the sticky stuff and has orders for more than 30 pair. He’s already earned more than $400, turning out a couple of pairs a week in his spare time. Garrett […]
The end of the school year brings an inevitable run of duct tape prom clothing stories, but this one is just different enough to pass on to you. This story in The Chicago Tribune introduces a new 3M product, Scotch Tough Duct Tape Transparent, which is a clear, see through, duct tape. According to 3M’s […]
When technicians dealing with Japan’s ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant site enlisted duct tape in their fight to get the disabled reactors under control. Technicians described as “wearing goggles and duct tape” risked their lives when entering the highly radioactive reactor areas to attempt to gain control over reactors that leaked into […]
In an attempt to prove that everything can be recycled, a group of Buffalo, NY high school students took on a project to repurpose candy wrappers, lottery tickets, milk cartons and duct tape. This “going green” project covered four different categories. The most interesting, by far, was making a duct tape dress. And yes, of […]