8 useful alternative ways to use duct tape

September 8, 1930, 3M employee Richard drew invented adhesive tape. Of course, before 1930, there was a prototype tape. For example, the initial version of the adhesive tape consisted of gauze and gutta-percha, and was patented in the name of Paul Karl Beiersdorf in 1882.

The tape made use of mainly in order to glue together a few pieces, however, over almost a century of its existence, there were other ways of applying a transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, some of them quite unexpected. We offer you a selection of eight unusual ways useful tape.

To get rid of pet hair on your clothes

If you have Pets, you surely know this problem is to clean wool clothes. Typically, buy special sticky roller or just spend on clothes a wet hand, the second method is not very effective, and the cushion might not be there. In this case, you can use a tape: rewind the tape a bit of tape from the roll, apply the adhesive side to your clothes and tug sharply on all adhering to clothes hairs will be on the tape. By the way, the same way you can save your favorite sweater from the pellets without damaging the fabric.

To get a splinter

If the splinter is not too deep, you can use Scotch tape to remove it. Need to stick the tape to the affected area of skin and pull sharply in the same direction, in which became a pain. Just note that all you need to do quickly, not attempting to pull the pain gradually, otherwise there is a risk that it will break and part of it will remain in the skin. If you do it right, the pain will come quite easily. The obvious advantage of this method over the traditional chiseling with a needle that you will not leave on the skin for additional damage and make the wound deeper.

To stop the bleeding

If you got a shallow but painful wound and the blood does not stop, then rinse thoroughly corrupt place, pinch the edges of the wound together and stick to this place Scotch blood quickly stops. However, when you do get the kit, then treat the wound with iodine or green paint.

Similarly, you can use tape to prevent blisters. If you feel that the shoes unbearably tinder, and the plaster again, no, stick to this place Scotch: the skin will not come in direct contact with footwear and then immediately will be easier.

To fix the laces

Over time the tips of even the highest-quality laces are deteriorating and to put them in the holes of shoes is very problematic. If you wrap worn out the tips of stationery tape, they will look almost like new, and put them in the holes will be easy.

To make custom duct tape sculptures

Nowadays, the artists often use tape for this purpose. Some, such as the famous mark Jenkins, tape made of human figures in natural size. On man wearing tight clothes, which is not a pity to spoil, and then wrapped his thin top with plastic wrap so that the tape doesn't stick directly to clothing and stick it on top of the tape. Artists recommend to pre-cut the tape in small strips with a length of 15-20 cm and gradually stick them on the body of the "model" in several layers. When the sculpture is ready, the dense layers of tape carefully cut from the body of the "model" and then re-connect in places cut with the same tape or permanent glue. Of course, in the same way you can wrap tape on any subject.

Manicure

To do this, take a tape medium tack and nail Polish. First check how well the tape stays on the nail — it is important that it is easily detached. If everything is in order, you can proceed directly to the nails. First, paint the nail varnish in one layer and wait until it is completely dry. Then cut tape in different shapes — squares, triangles, abstractions. It is desirable that the figures had more acute angles. Then stick the tape on your nails, cover it with paint of another color and gently remove the excess tape with tweezers. The result will be abstract patterns on the nails in those places where you put on the nail tape, and then removed it, you will see the varnish, which you initially covered the nail.

To make frosted glass transparent

If you stick Scotch tape on frosted glass, then through it you can see almost as well as through transparent. The fact that the light falling on the surface of frosted glass, scatters, and the adhesive layer on the tape fills in the irregularities in frosted glass, and the rays of light much easier to pass through.

Invent graphene

Graphene is ultra-thin sheet of carbon one atom thick, at the moment, which is the most durable of all known materials. Due to its thickness it is completely transparent. But the most interesting is not even its amazing properties, and the manner in which the material was first obtained. To create the graphene, its discoverers, Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov took the tape.

The researchers took a pencil, stuck to the graphite tape, and then unstick it — on the adhesive side left a layer of graphite one atom thick. Then the tape was dissolved with chemicals, and the result is graphene — this experience is easy to repeat at home.