[lit-ideas] Re: Moon Dust and Duct Tape

A duck heater sounds like a tracker trailer, you know,
those big 18 wheel trucks.  There's a book called the
Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz.  I
heard him interviewed.  He plays off of Oscar Wilde,
although how much Oscar Wilde has to do with it I
don't know.  Probably not much.  The book sounded like
if I were going to read fiction, that's the one I'd
read.  He's American with a Caribbean background.



--- Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Duck Tape.
> 
> Most of my customers are restaurants and roughly
> half my income is from commercial kitchen equipment
> repair: ranges, convection ovens, fryers, ice
> machines, walk-in coolers and freezers, etc.  A few
> years back I was trying to find the circuit breaker
> to a piece of equipment -- a restaurant can easily
> have over a hundred circuits and they are seldom
> labeled correctly if at all.  This particular
> restaurant, an old one, did have labels but they had
> been superseded several times over the years so it
> was tantamount to having none.  But there was one
> label that intrigued me: "Duck Heater".  There are
> many specialty pieces of commercial cooking
> equipment out there, but I'd never heard of a Duck
> Heater.  I kept my eyes open for anything that might
> seem unusual, and dedicated to cooking ducks, but to
> no avail.  After many service calls to the place, it
> finally came to me -- DUCT HEATER -- electric
> heaters set inside air conditioning ducts -- of
> course!  Not uncommon at all.
> 
> Duct tape does hold most of the world together, but
> there are two things it fails at.  The first is as a
> mailing tape.  It doesn't stick to cardboard worth a
> damn and the other is ducts.  Duct tape is lousy as
> duct tape, the alternate heating and cooling dries
> it out and it crumples.  I never use cloth or
> plasticized duct tape on ducts anymore -- only foil
> tape.
> 
> Mike Geary
> Memphis



      
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