It may be old school, but the precision of creating real world lines as part of the auto design process can sometimes be done better with tape than with a computer. This video gives some insight to how Ford designers include tape in their design tool arsenal.
You might just have to empty out your duct tape wallet and send all the money to Matt Crowley, if his claim to having made the first duct tape wallet is true. Crowley claims that he was the first to craft a wallet from duct tape when he was travelling with the Jim Rose Sideshow […]
Boat US, a popular web site and publication for boaters has started calling duct tape a “damage avoidance tool”. Maybe that’s why their online companion store, West Marine, sells a roll of duct tape for $23.99! Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and […]
From Reddit Post: I’m a starving artist who has to make my own tape by cutting up scraps of fabric and brushing on a home-made concoction derived from the neighbors’ missing horses and spiders’ silk. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll […]
One of the more mysterious specifications relating to duct tape is a number called “tensile strength“. Tensile strength is a measurement that determines how hard you can pull on a piece of tape before it breaks. When the Myth Busters wanted to build a bridge from duct tape, they first had to measure it’s tensile […]
An exhibit at the Science Museum in London features items we use and take for granted every day. Included are items Lego blocks, corkscrews and umbrellas. One of the items included in the exhibit is adhesive tape. It includes the development of the Post It note and features the development of the “slightly” sticky adhesive […]
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Johnson Controls, along with industrial supply distributor Fastenal, is experimenting with vending machines that dispense construction supplies like safety gloves, goggles and duct tape. The machines, at a Johnson Controls location in Hattiesburg, MS can be accessed by employees using an ID card and they allow the company to keep track of supply consumption through […]
Okay, we’ll have to grudgingly give these guys some credit. The makers of a new tape product with extremely aggressive adhesive have christened the product “Sticky Ass Tape“. The picture on the label is a bucking donkey (ass?) and the product is advertised to bond to metal, wood and more. Unlike most tape distributors web […]
Sebastian Vettel’s million dollar McLaren race car had to count on lowly gaffers tape in order to take the pole in this years’ Belgian Grand Prix. Vettel collided with Pastor Maldonado of the Williams Team during one qualifying session and needed tape to bandage the front wing of his car in order to complete qualifying. […]