All the tools you’ll need to be a gear fix-it guru—newly revised and updated to reflect the evolution in modern-day equipment and fabrics.
What to include in your hiking or travel repair kits
Duct tape dos and don’ts
New sections on caring for technical wool garments and repairing softshell fabrics, single-wall tents, hydration systems, and more
Whether you need to remedy a leak in your tent, repair flapping boot soles, nurse a cranky stove back to life, unclog a water filter, or revive gunked-up Velcro, you’ll find the solution here. And it can all be done with an inexpensive 12-item repair kit that, once assembled, won’t weigh more than a pound or two—worth its weight in gorp!
Duct tape's widespread popularity and multitude of uses has earned it a strong place in popular culture, and has inspired a vast number of creative and imaginative applications.
From Wikipedia: How can you go wrong?"Duct Tape is a vinyl, fabric-reinforced, multi-purpose pressure sensitive tape with a soft and tacky pressure sensitive adhesive. It is generally silver or black in color but many other colors and transparent tapes have recently become available. With a standard width of 17⁄8 inches (48 mm), duct tape was originally developed during World War II in 1942 as a water resistant sealing tape for ammunition cases.[1][2] Permacel, then a division of Johnson & Johnson, used a rubber-based adhesive to help the tape resist water and a fabric backing to add strength. It was also used to repair military equipment quickly, including jeeps, firearms, and aircraft because of these properties. In Canadian military circles, this variant is known as "gun-tape", typically olive-green, and also known for its resistance to oils and greases. Duct tape is also called "100-MPH tape" in the military [3], because soldiers often refer to something that exceeds expectations as "High Speed." "
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