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Its blade is a quarter-inch slimmer than most contractor’s tools, so it’s easy to lay flat for marking ... pay out tape, and bend the tape—say for measuring across a floor or from floor ...

He was trying to scheme some way to mark out the paint ... And so was born duct tape, a prayer of durability sent by a ...

There are better ways to build a radio telescope in your back yard, but the thought of having a gigantic parabolic dish out back ... a bit of epoxy, and duct tape. The design of a parabolic ...