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

Someone somewhere on the planet must be able to explain why duct tape will
rip a hole in fabric, hold a tailpipe on a muffler, and strengthen my
doberman's chain to the point that even he can't break it, but post-it
note-tape sticks to cardboard better.  I'm comforted, at least, that it's
not just *my* cardboard boxes which behave so.  At one semi-desperate point
trying to seal a cardboard box the other day I flirted with the notion of
spreading super-glue on the sticky side of the duct tape.  What stopped me
was a visual of what happens when I use duct tape merging with what happens
when I use superglue.   It wasn't pretty.  What is foil tape?  Does it work
well for situations where there is alternate heat & cool and moisture?

Julie Krueger
(In my moment of indecision, my daughter nabbed the roll of duct-tape and
proceeded to make a wallet out of it.  Anyone else wonder what the
decomposition life of duct tape is like?  I'm picturing landfills....)

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike: 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.
>
>
>
> The third failure of duct tape: its use as a disguise for liquor store
> robbers. If you live by duct tape, you shall be driven off by duct tape.
>
> Images at: http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/9129056.html
>
>
> Duct tape bandit caught in sticky situation
> By Associated Press
>
>
> ASHLAND, Ky. - A man with his head wrapped in duct tape tried to rob a
> liquor store over the weekend but was chased off by the manager with a
> duct-tape-wrapped wooden bat.
>
> Shamrock Liquors proved an unlucky target for Kasey Kazee, 24. Manager Bill
> Steele gave Kazee two rolls of coins then grabbed a bat beneath the counter
> and went after him.
>
> from:
> http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/offbeat/view.bg?articleid=1017461
>
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