FYI, it’s duct tape. For taping ducts.
FYI… that’s a modern contrivance.
This smells like duck propaganda.
Quack quack!
(Though, “cotton duck” was the material originally used as the cloth backing. It was another term for “canvas”,)
The military called the waterproof, cloth-backed, green tape 100-mile-per-hour tape because they could use it to fix anything, from fenders on jeeps to boots.
According to my Air Force mechanic in Vietnam uncle, they called it 100 mph tape, because that was roughly the speed it would peel off the fuselage of a plane.
I’ve always known it as “EB green”
That article doesn’t cover it, but the reason its called duck tape, is because its predecessor was made from duck cloth (a think fabric) with “duck” being a loanword from Dutch “doek”. Modern duck tape was just an improved, standardized version of this fabric tape. Later on, “duck tape” was warped to “duct tape” for its common use on ducts.
Depends on the duck.
Not magnetic, but it can get statically charged and be attracted to stuff and even stick on the non stick side. However this is usually just a pain in the butt and not an intended feature.
Tape being magnetic seems like a weakness - even metallic tapes tend to be made of non-magnetic materials.
Why is this guy being downvoted? Isn’t the point of the community to ask questions no matter how dumb you think they are?
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