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Nikolai:
In the US military it's called 100mph tape, and is usually green.
hedgie:
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--- Quote from: Akima on 08 Feb 2015, 00:54 ---I call it gaffer tape and avoid the whole duck, duct, grey tape controversy. I believe "duck" is the original, however.
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Not to nitpick, but there are differences between gaffer's and duct/duck tape; they're not quite the same thing. Gaffer's tape has a matte finish that's easier to grip, the cloth part is thicker and less stringy, and the adhesive is both a bit weaker and leaves less residue.
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Since I tend to have rolls of both around, and most of my duck/duct tape is black, I have confused the two before, especially when my mind was wandering. Always a bad idea.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 08 Feb 2015, 09:28 ---Not to nitpick, but there are differences between gaffer's and duct/duck tape; they're not quite the same thing. Gaffer's tape has a matte finish that's easier to grip, the cloth part is thicker and less stringy, and the adhesive is both a bit weaker and leaves less residue.
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I did not know that until I looked it up in Wikipedia yesterday. Duc(k/t) tape works IN SPACE!
explicit:
Oh yeah, it saved a spaceship and everything. I forget which one, was it one of the Apollo missions?
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: explicit on 08 Feb 2015, 14:14 ---Oh yeah, it saved a spaceship and everything. I forget which one, was it one of the Apollo missions?
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That would probably have been Apollo 13, since the other missions that had catastrophic problems (Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia) didn't end nearly as well, to say the least.
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