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Create your own piece of modern art just by using duct tape and some fruit...
Taping down the hood of a tired and beaten-up NASCAR race car.
Securing a homemade wagon-load of pumpkins and gourds.
A novelty raft race entry made of 1,700 milk cartons and 18 rolls of duct tape.
A homemade hang glider constructed of bamboo, plastic sheets, and duct tape. Seriously!
Using duct tape to protect fingers while playing the bass.
Fixing the broken tail of a lion statue, repaired temporarily with duct tape.
Fixing a leaky ceiling with plastic bin liners and duct tape.
Protesting war by wearing a hat made of a cardboard box, duct tape, and plastic sheeting representing a bunker.
Repairing a favorite pair of boots by using duct tape to extend their use.
Keeping Christ securely affixed to the cross.
Demonstrating a point of view while dressed in duct tape costumes. The sign reads: "Keep America safe. Use duct tape."
Using duct tape to protect fingers while planting onion seedlings.
Keeping feet in shoes by wrapping duct tape around high heels.
Holding together the seats of a near-three-decade-old bus with duct tape to counter surface wear.
Using duct tape with artistic license to create a "Duct Tape Chair" for a design store/art installation.
Duct-taping absorbent pads to hoses to transfer water and fuel to a drill well.
Tagging a lobster claw by applying Super Glue to duct tape so that the crustacean can be identified in its underwater conservation shelter.
Creating a cardboard and duct tape sled for use after heavy snowfall.
Employing a giant, symbolic roll of duct tape to symbolize repairs needed to transport infrastructure.
Being suspended by duct tape from a wall to raise money for charity.
Packing and duct tape used as an alternative to graffiti spray paint.
A colorful chair back made using tinted duct tape.
Make and wear a dress using colorful duct tape.
Attach a homemade punching bag to a tree in the backyard using duct tape and practice your boxing moves.
Sources: (Johnson & Johnson) (Space Center Houston)
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Duct tape keeping together a CO2 scrubber made from parts found aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft after the explosion. The DIY component saved the lives of the three astronauts.
Duct tape has been around since the early half of the 20th century. Invented by an American woman, Vesta Stoudt, in 1943, it serves as an all-purpose emergency adhesive fixing anything from leaky pipes to taping down the hoods of automobiles. It's even been used in space, when it helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts! In fact, there's not much this fantastically versatile material can't fix.
Click through and take a look at the amazing things you can do with duct tape.
Amazing things you can do with duct tape
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Duct tape has been around since the early half of the 20th century. Invented by an American woman, Vesta Stoudt, in 1943, it serves as an all-purpose emergency adhesive fixing anything from leaky pipes to taping down the hoods of automobiles. It's even been used in space, when it helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts! In fact, there's not much this fantastically versatile material can't fix.
Click through and take a look at the amazing things you can do with duct tape.