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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: You take tape for granted, but it's truly an engineering wonder. For instance, Scotch Magic tape exhibits triboluminescence; it will generate a bit of bluish light when coming off the roll in a darkened room. It emits X-Rays if unrolled in a vacuum. But this common tape is just the tip of the iceberg. Nava Whiteford looks at lab uses of many different types of tape. Kapton tape is thermally stable and non-conductive. Carbon tape is conductive but resistive. That moves into the non-resistive and more niche tape types. There's a tape for every function. This instant and non-messy way to connect two things together has a lot of science behind it, as well as ahead of it in experimentation, manufacturing, and of course household use.
Well, the problem with duck(*) tape is you can't ever remove the adhesive.
It leaves a sticky gooey mess which pretty much can't be removed. It's got its uses, but not anywhere it ever has to come off.
(*) The original tape was duck tape, and used for waterproofing ammo boxes ... it's not meant to be used for ducts, and it's a terrible application for it, or so I've been told by people who install furnaces. Not sure why it morphed into duct tape.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
The original tape was duck tape, and used for waterproofing ammo boxes ... it's not meant to be used for ducts, and it's a terrible application for it, or so I've been told by people who install furnaces. Not sure why it morphed into duct tape.
It dries up and falls apart over time. It's not heat resistant and is flammable.
There is a metal foil tape that is used to seal ducts.
Instead of vinyl tape with silicone adhesive, try this:
http://www.uline.com/BL_6420/G...
It is PET, the same plastic as a 2L soda bottle, and the adhesive is silicone based. I have found it impossible to tear, easy to cut, and it has much better adhesive strength than kapton tape.
No, it's called Duck Tape because the original manufacturer used a particular grade of sailcloth (canvas) referred to as Duck Cloth.
You could look it up.
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