Outdoor Recreation
- If a plug won't stay in the receptacle, you can put tape around it to hold the plug in and keep water from getting into it. If there is a panel cover over the plug, you can tape around the panel cover and the plug and it will keep it all together and dry (figure A).
- If your outside faucet handle is small or has sharp edges you can wrap it in duct tape. Take a strip of duct tape and roll it up like a straw, with the sticky side out, and wrap it around the handle. Take another piece of tape and leave it flat and wrap in over the sticky layer of tape and squeeze it around the faucet ( figure B).
- When hiking outdoors it's too cumbersome to carry a whole roll of duct tape, but you have some options. Cut some off and fold it into small squares and it makes it much easier to handle. Or, you could wrap tape around the strut of your canoe or around your water bottle (figure C) for easy access when needed.
- Duct tape can be used to patch a rip in your tent or a busted tent pole.
- Use duct tape to patch a gash in a rubber boot.
- Duct tape will temporarily cover blisters or you can wrap a twisted ankle with the tape (figure D).
- If you get a small scratch in your canoe, you can cover it with duct tape until you can return and get it repaired. Just make sure the surface is clean and dry before applying the tape.
- On a fiberglass boat, you don't want to duct tape anything under the water because it will not stay affixed to the fiberglass hull because it is too slippery.
- You can use carpet and duct tape to wrap sharp poles and fittings that can rip a boat cover to shreds.
- In an emergency, you can use duct tape to wrap around the oil lines in an engine until you can get to shore.
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Got Tape? Roll Out the Fun With Duct Tape!
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Author: Ellie Schiedermayer
(January 2002)
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The Jumbo Duct Tape Book
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Ductigami: The Art of the Tape
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Author: Joe Wilson
(May 1999)
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