Space Saving Duct Tape In Your BOB

If you are like me, you are always looking for space saving ideas. Some are for your BOB, or maybe for your BOA, cabin, retreat, BOV…etc. Here is a pretty easy one that works great as I have demonstrated. Every Prepper worth their sand, has Duct Tape in their cache. The big cardboard tube in the center of the roll is wasted space for a Prepper. Therefore, you can unwind it from the roll and rewind it on something flat (my example is an old debit card), or something with a smaller diameter (like a cut section of a dowel rod). As you can see from the picture, I have taken 10 yards of duct tape, and reduced the actual packing size significantly.

but doesn't the dust particles in the air get trapped when your putting it on the card? Making it less adhesive when you go and use it ?

Its a good idea but i don't think it saves that much space to warrent doing that lol. a roll of duct tape looks like hope to me a card with duct tape looks like i'm bottom of the barrel

Or you could just buy the Flat Pack Duck Tape. Or just remove the core from a roll and smash it flat

Making a flat pack

Message to the powers that be:


If your gonna nuke big cities, nuke them twice. We dont want a bunch of desperate wanna be survivalists and wanderers encroaching on others land begging or stealing.

Nukem twice.

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Haha, my father used that trick for swiping duct tape from the job site... the old rogue. It's also a handy use for your useless credit cards after shtf.

Hi,

Thanks for the idea.

You could also put your roll of Duct Tape around something cylindrical, like a water container or something while it's in your bag. I say this because my roll fits exactly around the container i'm using at the moment.

As Fixer1967 also said, you can buy or make yourself a Flat Pack.



Making a Duct Tape Flat Pack


Cheers~

Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Message to the powers that be:


If your gonna nuke big cities, nuke them twice. We dont want a bunch of desperate wanna be survivalists and wanderers encroaching on others land begging or stealing.

Nukem twice.

What the frack is this?

Originally posted by _Phoenix_

Originally posted by Shadow Herder
Message to the powers that be:


If your gonna nuke big cities, nuke them twice. We dont want a bunch of desperate wanna be survivalists and wanderers encroaching on others land begging or stealing.

Nukem twice.

What the frack is this?

Someone didn't get enough hugs as a child and want to make others miserable too...lol

Originally posted by 5pooky
The big cardboard tube in the center of the roll is wasted space for a Prepper. Therefore, you can unwind it from the roll and rewind it on something flat (my example is an old debit card), or something with a smaller diameter (like a cut section of a dowel rod).

If you have no raw materials, like dowel rod,or ideed cash with which to purchase them, or timber yards from which to pinch them, may I suggest the following? Walk into your local general store. Ask the cashier or manager, if they have any spent till roll tubes. Take a file and key the surface of the till roll tube ( they are usually quite shiny, so they need to be abraded in order to be tactile enough for the tape to grasp)These are typically of plastic construction, and have a diameter less than 22mm. Winding the tape off its original tube, and onto a much smaller diameter one, will save an awful lot of space, and yet be easier to apply than it would if you wound it onto or into a flatter shape.

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Years back I started a habit of using a "clipper"lighter as my duct tape spool.


You can wrap loads of gaffer tape round it,as an emergency supply,and still use it as a lighter.
Its a habit that has proved useful more than once.

A handy thing to chuck in your bag/car.

Originally posted by fixer1967
Or you could just buy the Flat Pack Duck Tape. Or just remove the core from a roll and smash it flat

Making a flat pack

edit on 6/10/2012 by fixer1967 because: to add link

That's what I usually do, remove the core and smash it flat. Works great!

Wrapping it around a pen works great. Then you have a pen too.

Originally posted by SUICIDEHK45
Wrapping it around a pen works great. Then you have a pen too.

Good Thought. I Likey!

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Why not just fill the void in the roll with something else in ya BOB, like a can of beer or whatever.. Ya will still save the same amount of space.. The art is in the packing me thinks..

Originally posted by lewtra
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Why not just fill the void in the roll with something else in ya BOB, like a can of beer or whatever.. Ya will still save the same amount of space.. The art is in the packing me thinks..

Or better yet.. WD40!!! Then you have a full toolbox right there!!! If it moves and shouldn't, use the duct tape, if it doesn't move and should, use the WD40. I've never checked, but I would hazard to guess that it would be a perfect fit!! ....There's just something about it that puts the "uni" in the Universe