Both. In the US, we have a popular brand of duct tape called Duck Tape. So as long as you buy the right stuff, you can’t go wrong! I learned pretty early in the trade that what most people call duct tape isn’t really. Real duct tape is foil based and the adhesive is ridiculously strong. It will last as long as the ductwork lasts. The best “duct tape” that most people can buy is commonly referred to as “hundred mile an hour tape”. It’s good for holding the body of your race car together during a race. It will indeed hold up at high speeds and even endure some rubbing and bumping. However, it’s a very short term fix; even on ductwork. It dries up, cracks and ultimately blows away. This knowledge leaves me very comfortable calling common duct tape “duck tape” or “hundred mile an hour tape”. Though it should be noted that actual hundred mile an hour tape is sold in a variety of colors for the vainer racers. I had a roll of camouflage tape that i used primarily as a lint roller for years. Ell oh ell!
There is one brand of this tape called "Duck Tape," and that is what many other people call this. Historically, this tape was used to seal joints on sheet metal ducts for air conditioning/heating systems, and most tradesmen call it duct tape.
It was created to wrap around air conditioning ducts to hold insulation in place. It has a variety of uses because it's strong, as in holding errant airplance passengers in place when they misbehave!
Pazner tape. Same tape just in khaki green uses our army to maintain vehicles. It's strategic resource. Officially it's 'Fiberglass strengthened self-adhesive band'
I pronounce it as “duck tape” but know that it’s spelled “duct”, and that’s what I’m saying in my mind. There’s a brand here in the States that just leaned all the way into it and calls themselves “Duck Tape”, haha.
I think my regional accent/dialect doesn’t really pronounce our T’s very crisply; that’s actually one of my speech-related pet peeves in others, I think because it’s uncommon to me. We would say “ducT” if speaking about a duct on its own, but the T is very lazily applied. A trained linguist could probably explain it better than I can, but yeah…. something in the effort of pushing the tip of your tongue into the back of your teeth to get that crisp T…. we just ain’t doing all that, haha. And beyond that, it sounds a little bougie. I expect it in like RP English or something.
It was originally made for duct work to seal things up that the actual ducts couldn't manage to do. In my profession, it's called, Roadie tape! It's what roadies use the fasten cables to the stage a band is playing on so nobody will trip over them in the dark or kick them around. It's also used in recording studios to, for some bizarre reason, deaden the sound of cymbals and I used to use it to wrap around my drum sticks to keep them from breaking as easily. Keith Moon used to use it to secure the headphones to his head.
@Chazmatazz269 I always remember that show being on late at night & I remember the first time I saw it & I thought Handyman Corner was the greatest thing in the world.
It was initially utilized for joining and sealing air conditioning DUCTS. Although some HVAC installers use Ordinance tape due to it's thicker aluminum core and tougher adhesive. Ordinance Tape was developed to cover Bullet hole in aircraft aluminum flight surfaces during the Vietnam conflict. Superglue also came out of the vietnam conflict. It came in a spray can for medic to adhere fractured livers and spleens together for transport. Saved many lives.
No, seriously, I made all sorts of spaceships and blaster guns and all sorts of stuff like that when I was a kid using cardboard, foil, and this fun tape. Of all the things I've used it for in my life, maybe about...🤔🤔🤔... oh, I'd say 90% the time I'd used it for fun. And that's a conservative estimate.
Some can be "duck tape" which is used during painting. Then you have "ultratape" which is usually metal, and used to patch onto metal. You also have "patch tape" that can be used to repair holes in things like gypsum boards.
It’s for taping and sealing things. And it’s used for air-conditionings it’s pretty strong. My uncle used to do that when he went on a lot of trips with his little camper, he would always duck tape everythingthing. There’s two ways of pronouncing it like duct, tape or duck tape. Either way it’s the same meaning
Correct name is duct tape. Though there is a company that markets their brand as "Duck Tape". Ironically it doesn't actually work on heating ductwork because it dries out and comes apart due to the high temperature.
I don't call it because it's not an item I've used or paid attention to. If I was requested to call it something, I would call it du scotch brillant, or du scotch argenté
You hear both Duck Tape and Duct Tape in the US because more often then that I hear people refer to it as Duck Tape why? I have no clue but I also refer to it as Duck Tape.
I think its the tape that creepy dudes have in their creepy vans and use it to restrain their victims. Some people use it for less nefarious stuff like fixing some pipe leak or what not.
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