>I carefully positioned the end of the tube right where I wanted the >juice to flow then taped it to the motor. (God bless duct tape.) Duct tape is crap. Here's an article I saved about the "quality" of duct tape: ----- POPULAR SCIENCE (December 1998) Tape That Doesn't Live Up to its Name DUCT TAPE is one of the most versatile materials ever invented. You can patch a tent, seal up a box, or even repair a leaky garden house with it. But according to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, there's one thing duct tape doesn't do well: seal a duct. In leak tests at the lab, researchers Max Sherman and Iain Walker forced alternating hot and cold air flows through finger-jointed metal ducts sealed with a variety of products --including duct tape, clear plastic tape, foil-backed tape, mastic, and injected aerosols. The reasearchers also baked the sample ducts at temperatures of 140 to 187 degrees F, simulating the conditions in many attics. "Of all the things we tested," says Sherman, "only duct tape failed. It failed reliably and quite often catastrophically." Duct tape consists of a cloth backing and a rubber adhesive. "We think that heat degrades the glue, and that's what's killing the duct tape," Walker says. The researchers are recommending that duct tape manufacturers reformulate the glue to work better at higher temperatures, and that longevity standards be developed for all duct sealants. Whether that will happen remains to be seen; as of press time, manufacturers were studying the test results. In the average house, 20 to 30 per cent of the energy used for heating and cooling is lost through ducts. ...Dawn Stover -- Dave Carpenter Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much. "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." -- Arthur C. Clarke |
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