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The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape

Kottke 09 April 2026 5h ago
The Fabulous Engineering and Design of Duct Tape
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Bill Hammack, aka The Engineer Guy , is an amazing engineering educator and in this video he explains how duct tape is designed to simultaneously do three things well: “a) adhere with light pressure, b) stay in place, yet c) be removable”. Controlling the stickiness of tape is of utmost importance. In fact, a key element of engineering tape is controlling its stickiness — and only by doing that ca
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