TIL a library in Portland has a book bound with actual duct tape

I was at the main library downtown last month looking at their special collections. They had this old repair manual from the 70s that someone had clearly tried to fix themselves. The whole spine was covered in thick gray duct tape, and they'd even tried to reattach a page with a strip of it inside. The librarian said it's been holding up for over twenty years, which is wild. It made me think about what we consider 'proper' materials versus what actually works in a pinch. I'm not switching to hardware store tape for my projects, but it did make me laugh. Has anyone else run into a weird or totally wrong repair that somehow lasted forever?

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jason95814d ago

Read about a guy who fixed his glasses with a paperclip and superglue in high school, still wearing them a decade later. Makes you wonder about all the "right" ways we're told to do things. Ever seen a repair that just shouldn't have worked?

olivia_morgan814d ago

Saw my cousin use duct tape on a cracked phone screen @jason958, thing lasted another year somehow.

clairec7814d ago

Right? @olivia_morgan8's cousin proves duct tape fixes anything.