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Duct Tape Finger Splint. Jory B. found that duct tape made a great finger immobilizer when his sliced his hand open on his gear shift knob. Man, that's what we call an agressive driver!

Duct Tape Togglery. Outgrow a pair or shoes? just cut off the toe part, leaving the sole, then duct tape the edges to keep from fraying. Or, get an old pair of snow boots, cut them down to the size of a shoes, then cut off the toe, minding the sole, and cut a big hole in each of the sides, then duct tape the sides to prevent fraying, and you've got yourself a pair of one-of-a-kind sandals! --- Trevor N., Naperville IL

Theatrical Tapings. I am an eighteen year old girl who is actively involved in theater and many of our 'techies' sing the praises of duct tape. Part of the initation ritual for new techies is to be duct taped to the ceiling of the workshop. One roll of duct tape held a 260 pound man!! Whew!! (click here to see wall and ceiling taping photos) Anyway, I thought you might find it interesting that in N'Sync's "No Strings Attachted" music video, one of the boys ripped the crotch out of his pants from dancing. However, a quick thinking techie quickly got a roll of duct tape and viola! His pants were fixed. If you look at the video, you can see it. Duct Tape is going to take main stream pop music. Maybe Britney Spears will be next. --- Ashley We have a hunch that Britney already uses duct tape for some obvious physical "enhancements."

TLC Chemo Relief. (right) The Allen family of California uses three to four inch strips of duct tape after chemo treatments. They claim that the pulling effectively removes hair stubble and feels soooo good!

Pit Crew Helper. I was in the pits at Watkins Glen International during some club races there years ago. A Corvette came in with front-end fiberglass damage due to prolonged Armco-kissing. I watched a guy re-attach a *very* large hanging piece of bodywork with four-inch wide duct tape, pulling off six-foot strips and wrapping them from under the front bumper up and over to the middle of the hood, using most of a large roll. In about a minute and a half, the car was pronounced road worthy and roared off to finish his race. Never saw faster bodywork repair, that's for sure. --- Mike

Lighter Sentence Thanks to Duct Tape. I believe Duct tape saved me. One time when me and my friend Bobby were in Brookline, NH (that's where I live) we were fourwheeling on the road (That's illegal) and we crashed, after running from the cops! He cuffed us, and searched us. And when he searched me he found I had a duct tape wallet! He commented on it, he said "that's really cool," and then we got into a conversation about duct tape. He still brought us down to the station, we still got in a little trouble, but to this day I truly believe that duct tape save me, and my friend. --- Volnye

Water-Resistant Splint. I was having a blast tubing behind a powerful boat until I injured the knuckle on my right thumb. Not wanting to miss any of the fun that was in store for me, I created a duct tape splint that proved not only to be water resistant but also excellent at immobilizing the injury. --- Amanda R.

Duct Tape Pest Control. We use duck tape as a soy bean beetle deterrent. We have a problem in the fall with these little maze colored pests coming in our windows where we have window air conditioners. We started putting duck tape around the areas that we saw they were getting in. No more beetles! If you are worried about the tape leaving goo on the windows, never fear there is a nifty product called Goo Gone that takes care of that in a jiffy!
We also use duck tape as a mouse deterrent. Last winter we had one of these furry little visitors living in our kitchen. We noticed that the only available opportunity for the little mouse to get in was where the kitchen drain went down through the floor into the crawl space. My husband drug his feet fixing this hole, so I took matters into my own hands. I duck taped around the hole and much to my pleasure we had no more furry grey critters in our house since! --- Emily H.

Letterbox on a Roll. To view all of your television programs with that wide screen theater feeling simply place a couple of strips of black duct tape on the top and bottom of your television screen. --- Brian B., Temple GA

Card Table. (left) My roommate and I needed a table to play cards on in our dorm room. So we grabbed two old pizza boxes, two of those popcorn tins from Christmas, and a roll of duct tape and made this, complete with four drink holders and removable top for storage. --- thanks to Marc C., Tucker, GA

Creative Quality Control. I was a quality control inspector for 16 years with General Dynamics Corp in Quincy, Ma. To beat the ship launch schedules we would DUCT TAPE all the plating seams above the waterline and paint them over to blend in, and it made the ship look good, then remove it later and weld them. --- George L.

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Be Prepared (Boy Scout Applications).
We'd like to share some great duct tape uses from The National Boy Scout Jamboree that was held July 23- August 1 at Fort AP Hill Bowling Green West Virginia. In order to "Be Prepared" (the scout motto) one has to make sure they pack a roll of duct tape with them. The army green color is preferred since that matches the official Boy Scout green. Here are some duct tape uses he shared with me. I'm sure some of them are not the newest ideas but here goes....

No-Sew Badge Application. Excellent for securing on badges such as rank badge, merit badges etc. Just cut the tape to proper size to make a loop on the back of the badge and firmly secure to the proper position on the uniform. Haven't lost any yet. It is recommended to remove upon washing. But you can always reattach after washing.

Excellent for making a clothesline. Have a buddy hold one end of tape and roll out desired length then roll tape together to form a rope. Can also use this rope for many other useful purposes. Is flexible enough that you can tie any good Boy Scout knot with it.

Make a raincoat for sudden thunder storms. Use a 2 plastic grocery size bags which were easy to get at the trading post. Slit sides of bags to form one large sheet. Tape together at sides and shoulders. For a really durable raincoat you can cover the entire bag with duct tape.

First Aid for blisters. The Jamboree is over 20 acres so they did a lot of walking and had some blisters. Found that after cleaning the blister apply gauze bandage and secure with duct tape. Worked much better than First Aid tape. First aid tape tended to fall off from water, heat, sweat or wear. Not the duct tape. Only thing bad about the duct tape is that you had to yank it off quick when you wanted to remove it. Ouch!!! But it still was good for all day wear.

Tent repairs. Had a big thunder storm one night that ripped open a tent busting the zipper wide open. But duct tape to the rescue! Even though it was storming out a team of scouts managed to successfully duct tape the tent shut to keep the contents dry.

Letters home. Since it was so humid of course the glue on the envelopes won't stick so just use a little duct tape. No you really don't need to cover the entire back of the envelope with it. Parents once you receive this letter be sure you have the proper tools for opening it!

Secure Luggage. Of course, everything won't fit into the one duffel bag and one carry on bag that you left with so duct tape to the rescue. Just shove what won't fit into the duffel bag (like 2 weeks worth of laundry) into a plastic garbage bag and securely tape shut. Then use about 1/2 a roll of duct tape and securely tape the filled bag to your duffel bag. That way your luggage is securely together and won't get lost or separated. --- submitted by Edal (dad)

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Portrait on a R"O"ll. My science teacher, Mr. Ogonowski (photo left), always keeps a roll of duct tape on his desk for doing many diffrent things with. Although Mr. O is always trying to help his student's grades, sitting me in front on multiple rolls was not the wisest decision. In an effort to show him how much I appreciated his work, I created a mural of his likeness on one of the science walls. This took me two class periods and three afterschool visits to complete. It looks jsut like him, as you can see. --- Philip B., Smithtown, New York

Soften the Blow
I put a scope on a straight stock rifle I had to shift my head up to see BOY did that blam me in the chin! I took foam rubber and ducttape to stock to raise the comb (perfect) no bruised chin. --- Chanvan

Prevent Frostbite
When by brother was at a ski race in Canada he taped up his face to be protected from frostbite (right). It was succesful! --- Robbie

Japanese Beetle Foil
I have a unique problem solved only by our near-divine tape. We have two unusual natural occurances which have clashed and have made life difficult. We have innumerable Japanese Beetles plaguing our grape vines, so, we got the Japanese Beetle bags (whith sex hormone lure for the trap) to collect the buggers. The bags work very well and we gather hundreds every day in the various bags. However, the traps have small holes in them and as the bugs die and smell, the odor is the call for food for a large racoon that lives in a nearby pine tree. Nightly he nibbles the bottom of the bags and releases the live beetles back into our grapes, while eating the beetles which have "passed on". One might suppose that I could empty or change the bags each day, but who has that kind of time?
Solution: line the bags with durable, flexible, beautiful duct tape. The racoon hasn't found it worth his while to eat the beetles now that they are so securely encased in duct tape. Glory!! --- Mark Simone (The Duct Tape Pastor - hear his Duct Tape Sermon here)