You guys ever heard of the product "Rescue Tape"?

http://www.rescuetape.com/

It's some sort of stretchy rubber that is like super strong, sealing, electrical tape. May be the perfect MacGuyver item. Somewhere they suggest it could be used as a temporary accessory v-belt, like in case your alternator belt breaks!

 

I might order some rescue tape!

 

You know, the stuff becomes ALOT cheaper when you buy it in bulk. Maybe we need to get someone on YT to take orders and distribute it!

 

that stuff seems pretty handy!

i wanna see a belt made of that stuff..

 

I made a wallet outta duct tape once. Worked well

 

so were you on the trail and you lost your wallet?

 

You didn't have enough duct tape to make a whole fanny pack?

 

Great stuff, but for $5 a roll I get mine at Harbor Freight (black 1" wide only). Home Depot also sells this stuff in black, white, or clear at the end of the "chemical" aisle

 

Dang thats a good idea.
Why didnt I think of that
And then I could make a trench coat like this guy for when it starts to rain on the trail

 

Was out deer hunting one year and when we came back to the truck there was antifreeze all over the ground. Found that a round from a 30/30 was lodged in the radiator. Must have been at the end of its travel cause it didn't go all the way thru. What we did was add water from a nearby stream until the water coming out the hole was getting hot. Then we crumbled up some horse droppings and kept adding it to the radiator until the leak came to a stop. Made it 60 miles back and only lost a little water. The oats in the droppings held pretty well. It was the only time my truck ran like a turd.

 

wow now thats a good one lol

 

And if you do the hat right, with strategically placed tin foil, it'll keep out the government mind probes and alien waves. It might even cure schizophrenia!!!11!!1!

 

Never had to deal with munitions in the rad, but I've had a few pin holes and I've found that coarse ground black pepper works well in a pinch (pun intended).

 

I had a flex link on my exhaust fail once on some forever long and a day dirt road in Utah. So, we scoured around an old corral until we found an ancient rusted can. Bingo!!



Just this weekend I realized a few of my front leaves had snapped:



Still had to get the 150 miles home, so made due with some True Value materials and a slower than normal trip on the backroads back to Scottsdale:



Whatever works.

 

we use that stuff at work all the time it is awesome

 

Based on you aviator and the pics from your paint thread I'm going to guess you work on aircraft. Why am I a little scared?

 

oooo, that could have gotten hairy real quick lol. i think slow was an excellent choice!

 

we were up above salmon la sac at the top of the w301 [about as high as you can get around here 6000+ft] and blew out a radiator hose. probably 3-4" long hole. we had maybe 14"s duct tape, ie not enough. we ended up taking off the gas filler, cutting some donut shims out of the rad hose as the gas filler was about an inch larger inside. held up fine wheeling our way home for 100miles....

 

^nice, ill remember that one!

 

why work you be scared that im an aircraft mechanic.