As you may know, perhaps my favorite home construction product is duct tape. I have my preferential brands and types depending on use. So you can imagine my joy when in the mail I found a package with my name on it, full of several rolls of Mossy Oak® camouflage Gorilla Tape®. It really was almost like Christmas had come early this year! The timing couldn’t have been more perfect, since the rolls arrived just prior to shotgun season here in Delaware. I mean sometimes the stars just align. [click to continue…]
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Via my home improvement guru and mentor Red Green I learned early on that Duct Tape was the handyman’s secret weapon. So with that class-A upbringing I learned to use duct tape as not just an adhesive but as a tool. One as versitlie as my leatherman multi-tool. As you might imagine, when I recieved a box from my editor in the mail containing two rolls of T-Rex Tape (manufactured by Shurtape), a new beefier version of duct tape, my heart fluttered like a tween at a Justin Bieber concert. [click to continue…]
Our friend Tony over PoundedThumb.net recently reviewed a batch of Scotch duct tape. Since I’m too lazy to duplicate his efforts, and it got cold outside here in San Diego (52 degrees. . . . brrrr), I’ll summarize his thoughts and testing here. [click to continue…]
Let’s face it, there are some projects you just can’t deal with immediately, but you also can’t let them sit entirely idle or broken either – so, you’ve come up with … other solutions.
Here’s my shameful confession: Shortly before friends were coming over one evening, the little hose connecting the water to our toilet sprang a minor leak. Yay. We rummaged through our box o’ handy things and pulled out some blessed Gorilla Tape. It totally saved the potty and the party in one go. What makes this confession shameful? The Gorilla Tape is still there. And … it’s been … a while.
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