 Poster: A snowHead
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Well the ‘what should I cover my holes with…’ thread spawned a discussion of GAFFER tape…
I have 1001 uses of it.
Headlight deflectors - much the best way of doing it.
ID tape on poles.
On the holes in glove fingers from grabbing edges
And many many more.
And you lot?………
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Slap a tubigrip on then use it to hold your kneecap in place when you've f'd your knee again. Kinesiostrapping is for pussies.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Blimey…that’s Rule 5 writ large….
That’s a good point DOTM - we have used it on the hill to close nasty wounds - big one in a forehead which wouldn’t stop bleeding after a fall on ice in some loose shattered morraine. Works a treat. Doesn’t half pull when the A&E team try to get it off later, though. Sort of industrial scale and strength ‘steristrip’….
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on gloves as a preemptive measure for edge cuts as above
on trousers with edge cut until I have a chance to patch them
on trousers with a combat pocket zip fail
on ski poles as a touring/traverse grip
on a ski boot where the buckle disintegrated
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We repaired a tent with it.
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Covering anything that lights up in a hotel room at night that cant be unplugged, gaps around doors and curtains to stop light getting in.
On a jacket to cover edge cuts
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@Dr John, …that’s what we are talkin’ about…
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@ski3, interesting….
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I had some in my hand luggage,got pulled for it at Manchester airport security,it's got a metallic surface and the security camera image looked dodgy
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Across your nose and cheeks as Adam Ant makeup/Beijing Winter Olympics style frostbite protection. (To be fair I used zinc tape which is often the patrollers' choice for utility medicine)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| valais2 wrote: |
| @ski3, interesting…. |
We were horse sitting for someone and they used this on many applications, very stretchy mesh fabric with low tack rubber-ish coating. It only "tacks" to itself, so you have to get an initial wrap to secure it and then carry on to add support or secure a dressing etc to person. Doesn't pull the hairs out when removing either 
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@ski3, ...I think that qualifies as a Top Tip....excellent
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You know it makes sense.
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Endless uses - patching the boat cover, holding glass fibre components together whilst gluing, repairing storage boxes.
I was amused last autumn when I discovered that the heating engineers had used it when installing our replacement heat pump. We now have duct tape securing insulation around the ventilation ducts...which is where the name comes from, of course.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We now have duct tape securing insulation around the ventilation ducts...which is where the name comes from, of course
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Well yes and no.
Duct tape is a heatproof kind of Duck Tape, which is a waterproof fabric backed tape made from duck cotton... and I've got a wallet made from it. Of course duct tape, or indeed duck tape shouldn't be onfused with gaffer tape which is specifically formulated to be reappliable and leave no residue on surfaces.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
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We now have duct tape securing insulation around the ventilation ducts...which is where the name comes from, of course
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Well yes and no.
Duct tape is a heatproof kind of Duck Tape, which is a waterproof fabric backed tape made from duck cotton... and I've got a wallet made from it. Of course duct tape, or indeed duck tape shouldn't be onfused with gaffer tape which is specifically formulated to be reappliable and leave no residue on surfaces. |
Thank you Did not know that.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| PORTMAN wrote: |
| I had some in my hand luggage,got pulled for it at Manchester airport security,it's got a metallic surface and the security camera image looked dodgy |
Actually had a roll taken off me by airport security, as "it could be used as a restraint". True I guess, but so could a half decent boot lace or a belt.
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Holding together a few bits of just about every clubman race car or bike I've ever seen, hence the name 'hundred mile an hour tape'.
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That may really be "high speed tape" from aero industry. There's a purely aluminium foil tape with very, very sticky adhesion used on the outside of aircraft fuselage to secure the edges of inspection panels etc from airstream ingress. Could be plain aluminium coloured, white, military green (you can guess the origins) and a friends father that flew as flight engineer from days of 707 always had a few rolls with him. He'd tape inspection hatches leading edges etc if he felt the securing method was unreliable after doing walk round technical inspection in pre flight prep. Safe in subsonic speed flight.
In a similar way "Heli" tape (often used in mtb frame protection) I think is a mylar base original formulated for leading edge protection on composite structure helicopter rotor blades. It prevents them being shot blasted by grit and propagating surface imperfections in field of use.
Not Duct tape specifically, but interesting properties.
In F1 currently they tape the body seams to improve aero disturbance on critical facing areas.
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