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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.
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Don't need me no specialty tapes.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Duct tape is like the Force - there is a dark side and a light side, and it holds the universe together.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Forget about tape! How many length of wire do you have?
Grow corn and have a few water purifiers in your settlement and you can get as much tape as you need. You're welcome.
The Red Green Show proved it. He used duct tape to turn a van into a convertible, to turn a bus into a hovercraft (blimp), and all sorts of other things. Now if only there was a handy tape for duct work...
Duct tape!
One is reminded of the famous quip:
Duct tape is like the Force - It has two sides, and it holds the universe together. The only difference is that "May the Force be with you" sounds a lot better than "May you be covered in duct tape."
That being said, I prefer book tape for many non-mechanical household uses. Modern duct tape doesn't seem to be stable over long periods of time but book tape, which is used for repair and reinforcement of books in libraries, is specifically designed for wear resistance and to remain flexible.
Slow news day.
The United States are held together by our constitution.
Japan is held together with double sided tape. Literally!!
Luckily, with tato, mutfruit, corn and clean water you can mix your own.
Reading this article, dammit.
In materials science, you learn that surfaces have an energy, and getting all these various materials to stick to other materials like Kapton is quite an achievement.
We can rest easy that the people who come up with this toil in obscurity...
Thank you! This is news for nerds and some good stuff.
3M figured out how to make a force field.
http://amasci.com/weird/unusua...
Which ones cause more cancer than the others?
Something that generic is almost bound to have multiple varieties, all with amazing uses.
It's kind of like being surprised at how many different and powerful types of mammals there are, or how many different types of internal combustion engines. Did you know there is an internal combustion engine designed to FLY? An another one to run a submarine?
Wow, that's so impressive.
Now, if we were talking something more specific, such as cyanoacrylate based adhesives, that would have no where near as many different properties.
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How do you stick something to Teflon? One industrial method is to treat it with a harsh acid that carbonizes the surface. You can glue to that.
So, I have blue tape on my walls in the locations that i expect to put up some pictures. I've already moved them twice, so i saved some holes in the wall.
Before i put in an ikea wardrobe, we didn't know if it would fit the room. I had a blue tape outline on the wall, didn't help as much as i wanted. I made a blue tape wireframe, and we felt it matched the room. We then did the same for another wardrobe in the den - a blue tape wireframe.
Don't need me no specialty tapes.
Which means you don't actually work with tape very much if you actually believe that. Duct tape and WD-40 are probably the most overused and routinely misapplied products ever made. They're fine for some applications but people use them all the time for tasks they aren't designed for and their performance in these tasks is predictably shitty.
The word tape means strip of something that is sticky on one side.
Umm, you do know that there is such a thing as double sided tape, right? You do know that there is tape that is not sticky, right?
Was thinking the same thing. One of the items that as I am poking around the wasteland that gets picked up more often than not is duct tape, packages or duct tape, and military grade duct tape!
One of the other posters is right though, aluminum cans and the like are your friend also.
Lastly one of the things that I didn't really collect a lot of, then starting to run out of very quickly was copper. It is used a lot in community building if you do that. Fuses, light bulbs, and other electric type things come in handy then.
But when I sees the duct tape, it goes in the pocket just the same... Beds cost cloth also.
Also just watched the movie "The Martian" recently, and duct tape takes a staring role in the film as well fixing everything from face shields, to habitats.
Seriously, this reads like someone was stoned and various types of adhesive tape became their fry-toys. Although I will admit: Mythbusters did make an entire working boat out of duct tape, and lifted an entire car off the ground with nothing but duct tape connecting it to the crane.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Not a word so far about the toughest tape ever. Drag yer lazy fingers to Google and look it up.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I've noticed a blue glow when i peel the wrapper off my BreatheRight strips. Was wondering what that was.
Tape is fascinating because it is used to fascinate things together. The large variety of tapes means there is a tape for every porpoise.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
not to mention, the folks at the tape company made a freaking force field!
http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
Ever seen the auxiliary corps, color guard or flag team of a marching band in the US? The flag ("silk") is ALWAYS affixed to the pole using good, old-fashioned electrical tape. (Black, white, or colored depending on show needs.)
Brand used varies by region and climate, but in California nothing beats Scotch Super 33+.
Rolls of it are in every performer's and coach's bags for use in an emergency, and if you're a roadie/techie, you'll buy a case of it for a season. Pretty funny looks at Home Depot, actually.
Hire a Linux system administrator, systems engineer,
Sticks tight, releases with no residue, withstands soldering temperatures and insulates at multiple kV per mil. Squeeee!
Yeah, it's tape after all. I do not consider the success of tape to be "unreasonable", "astounding", "bitchin' ", or "knarly". It's one of a billion consumer products and it does a job.
But your hand! Have you ever looked, I mean really looked at your hand, man? Whoa!
I ship and mail a lot of things, mostly under 10 lbs. I've tried most brands of the retail shipping tape and they all suffer from varying degrees from the dreaded 'split down the middle' syndrome. You are trying to get the tape off the roll, it splits and usually you get a partial strip that veers off the side. Trying to "restart" the full 2" wide tape is annoying. The best so far is the small roll sold at the post office, I thought, but then I had it happen to roll. Are they making this crap is China or what?
Nobody seems to have mentioned the Silicone Self sealing tape that is used to seal antenna connectors. You stretch it while applying and overlap it with itself and it fuses into one flexible silicone covering. It is better than anything else I have ever used and can be cut off the connectors with no sticky gunk left.
I've always wondered what the tape that holds computer accessories together during shipping is called.
For instance, when I get a new printer, the various hinged parts are held down by a tape that adheres strongly to the plastic parts but releases with no residue despite sitting in the box for months/years. I love the stuff but have no idea how to get a roll of it.
Anybody have a pointer?
passetspike!
35 mm film is attached to the spool with sticky tape. Pull it off and it glows, fogging the film. Brilliant! Fortunately, the glow is only strong enough to expose the film directly under the tape.
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