Soldier fixes brakes, wins duct tape title

[308Mike]

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Soldier fixes brakes, wins duct tape title

The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Nov 21, 2008 12:25:53 EST

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho soldier stationed in Iraq has won $5,000 and a year’s supply of duct tape after using the adhesive to fix the brake system on a military vehicle.

Joshua Roach entered a contest the Henkel Corp. sponsors each year to find the most unique use of its Duck brand tape.

Roach was named the winner Thursday.

In his entry, Roach says he was traveling in a military convoy when a strap holding gear to the side of his vehicle broke. The strap wrapped around a hose that distributes air to the brake system and severed it.

Roach used duct tape to seal the hose, unlocking the brake system.

His entry was one of 3,000 submitted in the duct tape contest between July and October. Nearly 500 of those submissions involved car repairs.

[Drone 7 of lots more]

Guess it's too late to claim credit for duct-taping a cracked bore evacuator on an M1A2 that allowed it to continue firing without asphyxiating the crew?


And I want mad spelling props for spelling asphyxiating without benefit of spellczech...

[The Quiet Man]

Guess it's too late to claim credit for duct-taping a cracked bore evacuator on an M1A2 that allowed it to continue firing without asphyxiating the crew?


And I want mad spelling props for spelling asphyxiating without benefit of spellczech...

You da man...YOU DA MAN!!!

[Dan]

I love Soldiers. Mad props to all y'all.

[Darrell]

Good on the soldier, but as a guy who fixes broken stuff for a living, when duct tape is the answer, nine times out of ten you're asking the wrong question.

[workinwifdakids]

Good on the soldier, but as a guy who fixes broken stuff for a living, when duct tape is the answer, nine times out of ten you're asking the wrong question.

Agreed, but when the question is, "How do I fix this while 100 jihadists amped on narcotics are running at me with AK47s?" the answer is always duct tape.

[Vonz90]

I have pictures somewhere, but when I was in Kuwait in '03 we had one of our radar/thermal sensors go down because the cooling unit blew and it was going to be a week plus to get parts. We rigged a window AC unit and ducted the air to electronics to cool it. The AC unit ran on hadji power so we had run about 100 yds + of extension cords and whatever other hadji electical stuff we could find to power it and then whol unit looked like a mass of cardboard/plastic/and duct tape as we tried to get cooling to all of the relevent components.

It looked like the most hoosier arrangement you have ever seen, but it worked.