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Why did the professional camera reviewers totally miss a serious flaw in the camera?

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dj_nme

Jan 1, 1970
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Steve said:
I'm not sure who you were asking, but the tape does not and can not be what
holds the ducts together. It is merely for sealing the joint for anal
types. Most ducts don't have tape on them.

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If ducts are made properly, they should be locked together by a folded
seam by which the ends of the ducts slide together and an edge is then
folded over to lock it all together.
Look up "pittsburgh seam" or "pittsburgh seaming" and "ducting" on Google.
 
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John McWilliams

Jan 1, 1970
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Ron said:
The original product was called 'Duct tape', and while it was great for
many uses, with a metalized cloth backing, and a rather thick adhesive,
it was tested on actual ductwork, and found severely lacking for this
use because the adhesive becomes hard when exposed to heat, and the tape
turns loose. However, it has MANY other great uses, and the astronauts
on Apollo 13 wouldn't have survived had they not had it along.
It can be a valuable asset around the house, as long as you don't try to
use it on heating ducts.

The product known as 'Duck tape' is simply a cheap knock-off of the
original product, and is, in my experience, vastly inferior.

Crikey, Ron, can you not freakin' read?

all of this has been covered. days ago.
 
If ducts are made properly, they should be locked together by a folded
seam by which the ends of the ducts slide together and an edge is then
folded over to lock it all together.
Look up "pittsburgh seam" or "pittsburgh seaming" and "ducting" on Google.


Metal duct is pretty rare in the south. They use fiberglass "duct
board" that gets taped together with metal backed tape.
When A/C is you main use, ducts are in the attic and humiidity is 90+
metal will sweat like a pig.
Garden variety duct tape won't last a year.
 
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Ron Hunter

Jan 1, 1970
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G said:
The biggest failure is drying out.

greg
Yep. It can do some great things, but permenancy is not one of its
outstanding features.
 
Where in world did you come up with duck?? One doesn't tape ducks; one
tapes ducts. except it isn't very good for that.....

Some american hardware stores stock duct tape with the trade name
Duck.

Makes me laugh.
 
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Ken G.

Jan 1, 1970
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I realize things now are made pretty thin and flimzy but the makers
cannot be responsable when the product is dropped on a hard surface or
it was treated with rough hands .
 
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John Tserkezis

Jan 1, 1970
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Ken said:
I realize things now are made pretty thin and flimzy but the makers
cannot be responsable when the product is dropped on a hard surface or
it was treated with rough hands .

Agreed. I've said it before, and I'll say it again (regardless of the nut
cases who insist that cheap garbage should be as good as the high-end gear):
You get what you pay for.

Some time back, a colleague who worked at our local Nikon distributor here
in Australia told of a story where someone in a hurry to get where they're
going threw their "happy snappy" style Nikon onto the back seat and closed the
door.

In reality, it slipped off the seat, the cord being snagged by the door,
with the camera now resting on the ground.

They drove to wherever they were going, all the while thinking there was
something seriously wrong with the engine with all that clicketing going on.

Anyway, get to their destination, thought to worry about the engine later,
and come round to collect the stuff (camera included) from the back seat.

Horrified to find a now very battered camera.


Fast forward to how Maxwell's found out, they had brought it in to see what
can be done about the metal "case" (still worked after all that). Maxwell's
offered to take the camera off their hands, replace it with a new one, and
keep the old battered one on a glass shelf in the reception area demonstrating
what the things will endure and still work.



And these guys are whining about a measly door clip. Wimps.
 
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