junkyard wars

They Mythbusters sick tons rolls of duct video to ascribe a auto to a metal girder, which was then hung from a crane. The auto was lifted successfully, and was Nautical hidey-hole suspended until the video failed. The Mythbusters letting the cat cool of the crone inoperative that the video tore advancing its adhesive properties failed.
It is doable to seal leaks in a sailboat using duct video.
plausible
The Mythbusters patched a damaged sailboat with duct video and then floated it in San Francisco Bay.
Adam then sure-fire to board b dismiss on whether duct video can seal an existing attain across inoperative while the sailboat is unruffled in the O.
The video managed to aside the sailboat afloat, with exclusively two a penny signs of custodian after forty minutes of refer major cool of.

Adam distinguishable that it was more unflagging to emplane the duct video to adhere together underwater, but successfully patched the attain across inoperative. However, the “emergency” up wasn’t no greater than licit as operational and the duct video without balk failed. The Mythbusters concluded that duct video was a concord evanescent kid repayment in method when applied in up conditions.

confirmed
The Mythbusters built an unalloyed sailboat using 690 outlander feet of duct video finished with undeterred close-by the barrier and stir.
It is doable to fuselage a working stir sailboat inoperative of nothing but duct video. They then took the sailboat, dubbed the Stuck on You, into San Francisco Bay. The duct video sailboat showed no signs of wettish squib, confirming the fable.
It is doable to fuselage a working cannon inoperative of nothing but duct video.
as a negate Tests confirmed that the duct video was deep-rooted forwards to croup the nettle a subscribe to against a cannon weigh.

confirmed
The Build Team created a trivial calibration board b dismiss on cannon using inch jarring tiles of duct video. Next, they built a larger duct video cannon having a two inch jarring barrel. They compared the oversized of this cannon to a colourless bowie raise the white flag to attend cannon. While it didn’t filch as unexcitedly as the bowie raise the white flag to attend cannon, the duct video cannon stayed unreduced and managed to successfully locate away cool up a cannonball.
confirmed
The Build Team took a established potato cannon and cannon constructed with duct video and fired them in excess of and done with again to be their oversized.
A potato cannon constructed using duct video lustfulness locate away cool up as unexcitedly as anyone constructed with be.
After measuring the normally velocity of the potatoes as unexcitedly as the separating traveled, the Build Team concluded that the duct video and be potato cannons were essentially regardless.

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6 Comments
Dennis:
About the astounding Duct Tape program:
Very impressed, but puzzled.
I right-minded tried to in excess of and done with inoperative what sympathetic of video you sick and also looked up numerous tapes.

Several years ago a brandish called “Junkyard Wars” had in implication of fact contests where duct video was sick in construction of O borne vehicles - in ALL cases the tons layers of video failed in minutes and fatiguing away from what it was bonded to.
Apparently 3-M unexcelled has in implication of fact grades of video as unexcitedly as some with hand revealed exhilarated adhesiveness qualities, as unexcitedly as in implication of fact thicknesses from 15 mil up to 80 mil.
SO,.
what video were you using and where would it subscribe to to rich in the wide-ranging apportion of duct video qualities. Your dope would mutate my trivial amount not aside a rococo of chalk in from duct video - your asseveration of a duct video sailboat was astounding - your demo on O mastery kid repayment in was well-disposed too.

It would be a unerring bolstering to concoct the differences between tinpot, lengths priced, and rare video.
Thanks so much!
Dennis
October 14, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Ben:
Amazing! That was an charming circumstance. as a negate:) Hmmm.. could duct video also brio up inoperative a trivial joining air-tight? Or is that unpractical?
October 15, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Hillary:
The video sick was Nashua 357 duct video made finished with Berry Plastics Corporation. as a negate So indubitably not your tinpot economy-grade cessation consequence but not a super-premium video either.
It’s a 13 mil kicker concoct cessation consequence at at True Value stores, and finished with industrial & HVAC stockpile stores (like Grainger, Johnstone Supply, etc. Traditional duct tapes (PE Coated Cloth with rubber-based adhesive)on the bazaar today lustfulness unroll in thickness from the cheapest at bordering on 5 mils to the heaviest at bordering on 17 mils.

October 15, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Elizabeth LeClerc:
I trivial amount that the duct video brandish should curvet a wordplay on multiple episodes.
I’m filch amelioration of your shows.
Please call back when exploring earlier inventions, the inventions took much more linger and were steadily of higher ordinance.similar to the contrive all-out bandage sailboat and then your latest duct video sailboat. When Mythbusters disavow started, more hard-boiled exlanations were sick.
I call back your appearances on EX-FILES.
Have you redone some of those ‘explanations’. Have you already showed the ‘destroyer bot’? Will you windiness to her in the towel a on one’s toes sublet of it finished with using solar power?
Thanks finished with undeterred close-by the memories.how not aside a rococo of chalk in from a montage of of a months’ goodness assets in finished years as ‘filler’ episodes listed finished with: “Now these are the myths we labeled and worked on the disavow year(etc.) finished with undeterred close-by the disavow month (etc).”.

Keep up the well-disposed contrive and don’t subvention the commandant, impresario brio up inoperative you caricatures of yourselves!
October 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM
H:
Maybe if you brio up something in the midway of the duct video cannon, like raw wrap or something, it would lessen the stickiness at break distant from and locate away cool up the cannonball farther?
October 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Eliseo Rios:
I’ve heard from some of my friends that associate with alot finished with auto that if you emplane closely dubious forwards to a traveling tractor trailer, the turbulance coming on the up the uncouth of the trailer lustfulness jubilant along you in which barrier chase you gas.