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Subject: Re: DUC[KT] tape
Date: 10 Jan 2026 20:07:06 GMT
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On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:20:16 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

> rbowman wrote:
> 
>> To further muddy the water when I was a kid we used friction tape for
>> wire splices and many other things.
> And you can see how tapes like that developed over time to create e.g.
> HPHT (hot pink hockey stick tape), or cohesive bandages (buy as 3M coban
> if you're human, or as 3M vetwrap if you're a cheapskate).

Yeah, I got a wad of that after the blood draw for my annual physical a 
couple of weeks ago. Handy stuff. For a lot of things it works better than 
the old Ace bandages that tried to unravel while you were putting the 
clips on.