We’ve made occasional auto repairs with duct tape, but never realized that it has now become a standard component in auto maintenance. As these tips from octanecreative.com show, you probably should not leave the garage without a roll under the seat. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us […]
Duck Tape® recently announced that they will be partnered with Scholastic Art & Writing Awards to sponsor an award in the Mixed Media category. Duck Tape® will offer a $500 scholarship to five different students within the category, which challenges students to create a piece of art using more than one medium. Though duct tape is […]
When a Port Charlotte, FL mother learned that her daughter’s school bus driver had forced the children on her bus to tape each others’ mouths shut to keep them quiet, her response was “It breaks my heart. She doesn’t get that sort of treatment at home”. The official spokesman for the school system’s response: “It […]
Duct tape may have gotten its name because earlier versions of the product were used to hold sheet metal heating ducts together, but today’s version of the hardware store staple is not up to the task. If your ducts leak warm (or cool) air, then you’ll need a tape with specially formulated adhesive that is […]
With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on the Northeast, we thought it might be a good time to re-post our March 2012 article regarding taping windows as hurricane preparation. Meeting in Orlando, FL this week, the National Hurricane Conference is making a new recommendation to homeowners as we approach the hurricane season that starts in June. […]
Jim & Tim, The Duct Tape Guys, have some great suggestions for Halloween costumes, using duct tape. Click here to see their video. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world! Thetapeworks.com
The General Services Administration, in a clumsy attempt to cover up its free spending past, is using duct tape to cover up the names of former GSA Administrators on a building sign. Duct tape now conceals the names of former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson and Public Buildings Commissioner Robert Peck. Both officials have been linked […]
A video posted to the Huffington Post puts to rest the idea that bad guys in the movies putting duct tape over the mouths of their victims will keep them quiet. In the video we see that even with tape over your mouth, it is still possible to talk or to yell for help. We did […]
In providing guidelines for watching tonights’s vice presidential debate, the Huffington Post has revealed that starting today, Vice President Joe Biden should be known as “Gaffe Gafferson, the mayor of Gaffe Town, where they manufacture gaffers tape“. As the reigning monarch of tapenation.com, Mr. Tapehead thinks that he should have been consulted, or at least […]
A thief that used duct tape to try to silence a goat he was stealing left behind more than just the goat. The attempted theft of two goats, and the subsequent death of one of them, from a school’s agricultural barn generated evidence that police were able to use to eventually solve the crime. DNA […]