You Can’t Be Too Sure: 3M Nuclear Grade Duct Tape (No Joke!)
Posted in Random by Dan at 10:47 pm
This post was published 8 months 27 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Yes kids, in this is day and age you can actually purchase nuclear grade duct tape. Thanks 3M!
Funny thing is in the product description it mentions nothing about the tapes “nuclear” qualities. However, you can get it on Amazon for $14 a roll.
See you in the lead lined bunker!
Technical Details
* Slate-blue nuclear duct tape certified for low leachable halogens and sulfur
* Ideal for applications in the shipbuilding, _nuclear power plant_ and stainless steel industries
* Offers 6-month clean removal from most opaque surfaces
* Sunlight and UV resistance for up to 1 year
* Measures 48-millimeters-by-54 meters (WxL); 13 milli-inches thick; weighs 1.6 pounds
maybe that’s why?… more than likely a marketing slang or something.
Oh sure, READ the technical details!
Oh, it’s just a specification for use in some nuclear facility applications. At $14 per roll, it’s our tax dollars at work!
Funny how after so many years, that inclusion of the word “Nuclear” still gets a lot of knee-jerk and uninformed reactions. REAL geeks would understand the “nuclear” specifications without a lot of hystrionics.
Are you somehow implying that Dan isn’t a real geek?
I’m just about to test the Nuclear capabilities of the tape.
BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!
That was low, Fun Fong.
You have to admit, the idea of have something nuclear in a roll of sticky funness is quite amusing, even if that’s not what it means.
First! LOL just wanted to do that
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I think Indiana Jones used this to escape a nuclear blast.
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@johnsonjunk: Just FYI that sort of behavior can get you banned round these here parts. Or, if Adam is so inclined, perhaps you’ll be covered in Nuclear grade duct tape and taped to a wall like we did to freshmen in college.
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Now if they could make a ’stage ready’ (gaffer’s) version…
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@projectvirus: Or to the underside of a diving board. Ah, college…
Also, I was seriously disappointed when I found out nuclear duct tape just doesn’t react well with halogen or sulfur instead of withstanding atomic blasts.
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@Jack Dedert: What’s wrong with plain ol’ Gaffer’s tape?
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@SenorDunda: This whole using Indiana Jones’ survival of a nuclear blast in a refrigerator as an allegory to "Jumping the Shark" has really Nuked the Fridge by now.
Did I just make your head hurt?
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This might sound stupid, but I’d so gag myself with that.
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@schmod: Agreed. I’m not sure that would be necessary.
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Sounds like the 1,000 mph duct tape has been dethroned.
[www.abc.net.au]
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@drownedphoniex: Do it do it do it. Not like your going to need medical attention after you try pulling that off.
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I see a big market for this product.
We can all wrap our computers with this tape and convince the "important" servers to do the same for future surfing.
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Low leachable halogen and sulfur levels! Just what I need!
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don’t think it was 3M tape, but we already had some really strong nuclear grade tape when I was in the navy working in the reactor spaces on the ship. We used to steal the tape from the rad-con guys cuz the duct tape our division bought us was crap and the rad-con guys had the good tape.
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@proudfrank: When I used to work in a college, they were doing construction in one of the buildings. In order to prevent dust getting in, they plastic wrapped, then taped the wall mounted server/fiber switch. A few hours later everyone in that building reported their connection went down. Cooked itself.
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@Jack Dedert: I was thinking this stuff is just re-labeled gaffers tape!
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I’m not sure how comfortable I am with the knowledge that nuclear facilities might be using duct tape for ANYTHING…
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@Vince Anido:
Duct tape likely was head and shoulders above what the USSR nuclear facilities got issued ;-)
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Being a former navy nuke I can attest to nuclear grade duct tape.This tape can even be used to tape something underwater (been there done that). It is amazing it leaks no radiation.
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If it’s good enough for Apollo 13….
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@Vince Anido: We used Duct tape for tons of stuff on the ship. With miles and miles of pipes running through the plant, we’d use it to tape down pipe lagging if it started to come loose, then paint over it. Radiological Controls stuff uses tape all the time for containment boundaries, taping up bags of rad waste, etc. It’s not like we were plugging holes in the reactor with bondo and duct tape (although I bet that would work!)
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@drownedphoniex:
>I’d so gag myself with that.
Uh…um…
You need any assistance with that?
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@OscarWinner_GitEmSteveDave: that’s what happens when people "think"
duh, airflow, did anyone notice that the room had it’s own dedicated air conditioner?
ha! i wonder if in arizona they would use a swamp cooler?
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@FrancesTheMute: Ordie tape was similar if I remember correctly…
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@concordia: I do! I do!
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@OscarWinner_GitEmSteveDave: I had the opposite experience at a remote office once. They decided to move a couple of walls (shrinking an already cramped server room) and did nothing to protect the equipment. Upon my arrival I found servers & switches all chock full of gypsum & saw dust. Everything was still running, but had to be taken down and cleaned over the weekend.
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If the crew of the Titanic had this on hand, that ship would’ve never sunk.
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@Vince Anido: Duct tape is like the force…
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don’t worry ~ I’ve got it out of my system now and won’t do it again…it was a "first" for me…and last@projectvirus:
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I’ve probably mentioned this in the comments at LH before, but I’m a die hard 3M fan. Their products are consistently much better than the other options, whether I’m buying stuff to paint my car, replace my AC filter, restock my first aid kit, or now, comply with nuclear regulating agencies.
Okay, enough corporate whoring for today.
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The guy who used duct tape and garbage bags instead of bookshelves looks a LOT more formidable than we had initially suspected..
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The picture of the duct tape on the right looks like my homemade duct tape wallet after a year and a half of use. Are they saying that my wallet would look like the left if I used 3M’s nuclear grade duct tape, plus withstand the nuclear blast fated upon us by the rise of SkyNet?
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The reviews on Amazon are kinda funny.
Plus after viewing the duct tape some people bought electronic toothbrushes or a rubiks cube. Odd.
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@johnsonjunk: Well it only takes everyone doing a "first" one time to make us all go crazy.
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@BrianB: How does this make us all go crazy? Just don’t read it. He’s just having fun. Now we have 6 messages about it — is that really where this should have ended up??
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Is this what [rec][depr]ession has brought us?
Then: Buy a $40K SUV "just in case" you need to venture beyond your suburban shopping perimeter and traverse the Amazon basin.
Now: Buy $15 "nuclear duct tape" just in case…what?!
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@jeffk: Keeping a tin-foil hat on nice and secure?
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Great! Now my cables maybe will be hold by this thing.
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We use this stuff where I work. We make components for nuclear power plant and use it to cover carbon steel tools and the like so that we don’t contaminate alloy materials such as stainless steels or nickel alloys. Also great for putting tags on plate material because of the low leachable contaminate content on the adhesive which can degrade the material, especially at high temperatures or in the presence of radiation.
Oh, it comes in red too! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
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@goodywitch: that’s a fact.
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sounds fairly mint but i think ill stick to normal duct tape. cheap as hell and leaves no resedue when you get nail polish remover on its case!!
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@mfusion: It wasn’t a room, but a wall mounted unit in a common area near cubes/offices. It was mostly passively cooled by the surrounding climate control, but this was enough that it cooked itself like those bags you put chickens in to bake.
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@jkrell:
So how does one know in advance that he is about to read a "first" post? That information is kinda critical if you’re to avoid reading it, right.
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@Ethan Shaffer: Same here! Our gaffer’s tape does the job quite nicely. In other news, there’s some glorious spike tape out there that comes off easily within 60 days. Very spiffy.
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@johnsonjunk: Fisrt!
And I find aluminum tape more useful than duct tape.
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@Smiling_Gandalf: Use Gaffer’s tape instead! Just as sticky, and much less likely to destroy the underlying surface when you remove it…
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@FrancesTheMute: I believe you’re referring to the wonderful, magical EB Green – that’s all we used when I was a Navy nuke.
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@lacrimaeveneris: As a sometimes stagehand, LMAO at 60-day removal.
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@heltoupee: Yes, you did. But it doesn’t matter, since flying sharks would be much worse than jumping sharks any day.
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@critter42: EB Green… Leak tested to 400 ft! That is my favorites "old sailor’s tale" from my sub days. Legend has it that someone had taped over a hull crack which then got painted over… No one noticed until the sub was at 400 ft and the tape sprung a leak… LOL
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@jc364: Now imagine a shark surviving a nuclear blast inside of a refridgerator.
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