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Do not try what you're about to see at home.

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We consult with experts, we take every precaution and we have years of experience in dangerous situations.

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We have duct tape all for the glory.

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Meanwhile, Cary, Grant and Tori are hitting the road.

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It took you so long.

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To find out if duct tape can keep a car from going to pieces.

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He's a mad woman.

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Then it's a race to the finish line.

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Last lap!

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To see if the sticky stuff we survive can stop a speeding car in its tracks.

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Who are the misbusters?

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Adam Savage.

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It's scientific!

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And Jamie Hideman.

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I call him my little pop gun.

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Between them more than 30 years of special effects experience.

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Joining them, Cary Byron.

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Explosives in electricity.

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Tori Bellachy.

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We're popping popcorn with lasers.

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And Grant Imahara.

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I'm sorry!

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They don't just tell them it.

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They put them to the test.

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Oh no.

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Oh yes.

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That can only mean one thing.

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Yes it can.

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It means back by popular demand it's time for the duct tape special number two.

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It was one of our most popular shows.

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I'm giving it all we got, captain.

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When the mythbusters paid homage to duct tape, fans went into a frenzy.

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More duct tape.

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Love it.

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Because you asked for it, they're putting more duct tape tales to the ultimate test.

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Oh it's for real.

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So what do you have in mind?

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I see in my mind's eye a chasm, wide and deep, spanned only by duct tape.

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A duct tape bridge.

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That you and I can walk across.

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Sounds dangerous.

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Exactly.

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A duct tape dingy's one thing, but using duct tape to replace steel and stone?

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The tape's mythical adhesive and low bearing capabilities are about to be stretched to the absolute limit.

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But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

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You know before we decide on a final design, I think we should run duct tape through its paces in the shop downstairs.

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It's a series of bench tests, if you will.

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Look, obviously we're already pretty familiar with the awesome power of duct tape.

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But if we're going to make a bridge out of this stuff that safely suspends us above a chasm,

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we're going to have to determine a couple of things right up front.

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One, how much are we going to need to support our body weight?

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Two, how are we going to anchor the duct tape to the sides of that chasm?

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That's what we're about to test and figure out.

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So where do you want to begin?

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Let's say we stretch out a single strand and see what it takes to break it.

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Sounds good. Let's do it.

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Step one, a single strand of strength test.

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Today the role of our strength testing device will be played by a digital force cage.

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I will pull on the duct tape with this hook and right here it will tell me how many pounds of force it takes before it breaks.

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Ten, twelve, thirteen.

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This is killing me.

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I don't mean it's hurting, it's just the indisimation.

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Sixty-three.

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Sixty-seven point three pounds of force to break it.

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That's more than I would have thought.

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Me too.

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They might be well acquainted with duct tape's awesome qualities,

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but it still has the power to surprise.

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I didn't realize the duct tape was going to be that strong.

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That means that we could in fact build a bridge in theory with like three or four strips of duct tape and nothing else.

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That little laugh means Jamie's already plotting to put that theory to the test.

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I want to stretch four across and sit on it.

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And sit on it.

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One strand snaps at sixty-seven pounds, so four strands should hold a one hundred and eighty pound Heinemann, right?

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You ready to sit on this?

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Slow down, slow down.

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So you're hanging?

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I am.

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I would say I'm off the ground.

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With a combined load bearing capacity of more than two hundred and sixty pounds, the four strands support Jamie.

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But they're drooping more than his mustache.

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You're drooping like six feet over thirty feet.

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That's quite a bit.

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Yep, it's supporting me, but I have to say four pieces of duct tape does not a bridge make.

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We're now going to try a strand of eight pieces of duct tape and see if we get less droop.

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We'll doubling the amount of tape have the droop factor.

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You ready for us sitting on eight pieces?

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I'm ready.

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With Jamie sitting pretty on his perch, Adam runs a tape over the tape and the news isn't good.

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Four feet of droop instead of five feet of droop.

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You would think that that doubling of the quantity of duct tape would, what, cut the amount of droop in half, but it didn't.

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Hopes of a successful bridge are second until Adam hits on an idea.

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He lays five eight layer strands side by side, then weaves a little magic.

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I'm trying to tease out some structural qualities in duct tape that will eventually yield for me, this is my goal, a bridge that I can actually walk on.

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And it seems they might have finally found their footing.

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It doesn't feel that bad. You want to try it?

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With his weight distributed across all five strands, the extreme sag might be solved.

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Yeah, it looks good. With handrails, you could walk right across this thing.

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And with five of those, you've got a good safety factor.

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This stuff is amazing. You know, we might just be able to build a bridge out of this.

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I think you're right.

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Look, ma, no hands.

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All right, so last time we built a cannon at a duct tape, what are we doing this time?

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So along with road flares, jumper cables, devices to smash out your windows, there's one more very important tool you should be carrying along in your car.

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Duct tape.

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Yeah, sure. If you get into a minor fender bender, you could use it to hold things together until you get to the mechanic.

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Now, I hate to ruin your party, but that's actually not a myth. It works.

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I mean, I've used duct tape to fix my car in the past.

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Well, I think the myth lies in the extreme.

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Just what are you getting at?

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I have some plans for you guys.

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Everyone knows a few strips of duct tape can mend a minor automotive mishap.

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But can it really cure the most extreme car catastrophe?

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I have a plan. I'm going to tear apart a car and see if you can put it back together with duct tape.

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Good plan. Sounds like a challenge to me.

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Oh, you don't even know.

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Putting the car back together is only part of the challenge. It will also have to stay in one piece at top speed.

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And so yet another unfortunate automobile enters the driveway of doom.

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Alright, time to wreck this car.

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This little adventure is really going to put duct tape to the test.

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The boys are going to have to put this car back together after I destroy it.

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Now, they think it's going to be easy.

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I think they are underestimating my destructive powers.

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To really test the tape, she wants that car in as many pieces as possible.

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And has developed a disturbing appetite for destruction.

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I love destroying cars.

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Breaking glass.

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Crunching metal.

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It's awesome.

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But when it comes to raising the roof, even Carrie's dark side is defeated.

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Yeah, there's actually tools made for this. I think I have some friends that could help.

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Cue a crew of San Frans Finest, ready and willing to help Carrie complete her deranged dismantling.

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Just in time. That is awesome. What is that?

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These are hydraulic cutting tools. And this is a cutter spreader combination.

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These are cutters and we're going to use them to cut apart the vehicle.

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These tools are designed to quickly open up vehicles and free accident victims.

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This makes my tools look silly.

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Using hydraulic power, the blades bite down with more than 12,000 pounds of force.

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Woo! I love it.

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Thank you guys so much. This is really going to ruin their day.

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Bye guys.

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Bye.

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Grant and Tori have no idea what they're in for.

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It took me a sledgehammer, a crowbar, a grinder, a saw, and four big firemen to destroy this car.

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See what they can do with duct tape to put it back together.

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Boys!

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Oh my god.

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You went to town on this car.

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It's a convertible now.

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Here are your tools.

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Oh my god.

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That is an impressive amount of damage to this car.

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I mean I've heard of duct tape being used to like, you know, tape on a bumper or fix a windshield or, you know, wrap a hose.

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But you know what? Not all at once.

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They're in a sticky situation. Carrie's done her job real well.

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Carrie has cut some key structural points in the car.

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Now it is important that we get it back to that straight because let's face it.

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This is what's going to hold the doors on, the roof on top, and keep the windshield in place.

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This is really where the duct tape is going to have to prove itself.

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Soon the air is filled with the sound of ripping duct tape and Carrie's thoughtful musings on the material.

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Duct tape is essentially made of three layers.

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We have a vinyl layer on the outside that contributes to its waterproofing qualities.

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A fabric structure that gives it its core strength and a natural rubber pressure-sensitive adhesive.

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Generally comes in black or silver and is about 1-7th-8th inches.

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It's known as duct tape, but also it can be called duct tape, hurricane tape, gaffers tape,

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100-mile-an-hour tape, tank tape, and riggers tape.

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Thus, just part of the team.

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The carved-up car is coming back to life. Much to Carrie's surprise.

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I can't believe how quickly you're getting this car together.

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Just wait. We've made a few improvements.

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Is that a window from the door?

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Yep. Don't drive too fast.

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With the rebuild complete, Carrie can't hide her admiration.

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I'm going to drive this car to give the duct tape car a true test.

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Now, the guys, if they drove the car, would drive somewhat gingerly because they don't want to see their work fail.

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They don't want to see the doors fly off.

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I, on the other hand, do.

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I'm the wrecking ball in this situation and I want to see things fly.

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Later, the highs and lows of a bouncy bridge and next can Carrie demolish the duct tape car.

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Carrie Torian Grant's duct tape car fix is ready for the ultimate test.

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Oh, sorry. I might have gotten a little carried away. Hey now.

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And so it's off to a place where the mythbusters have performed many crimes against inanity.

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What took you so long?

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What we're going to do now is set up a course here at the Alameda runway.

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Start, go through a little less curve, around a turn, hairpin turn, and then through a bump, a bump, a bump, and then a really tight turn.

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The idea here is to subject the car to as much stress as possible in the form of G-Force.

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This is duct tape car on the duct tape classic Grand Prix.

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Lap one, go ahead.

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Okay, here we go. Car number 17 with firing at the wheel into turn number one.

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Look at that.

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Carrie drives as though the accelerator is duct taped to the floor.

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Now in turn number three, Silverstone.

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Through her crazy cornering, the car is subjected to tremendous G-Force.

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The bump! Indianapolis, and back to the beginning.

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We're going to die.

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Okay, lap number four. Go, go, go, go.

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I got to say right now, the car is looking perfect.

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That's five laps so far. You are looking great. Even your hood detail is still on.

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Carrie's doing between 40 and 60 miles per hour.

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In a car with no structural integrity, everything from the roof to the doors is being held on only by tape.

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One wheel in the air. Take it easy there, Carrie.

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Last lap. And for the checkered flat.

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At least I think I would have. It's a duct tape classic.

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Why do you know that duct tape car has stayed the course?

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Alright, that was ten laps.

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Woo! You know what? It actually made it.

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We survived.

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Hairpin turns, S-curves, bumps, I go over sandbags, I get air. Still, duct tape is holding up.

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That was on flat ground. Now it's time to take it to the next level. We're sending it off-road.

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And in addition, it looks like it's going to rain.

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Let's go.

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Maybe getting off the beaten track will bring this myth unstuck.

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Mad Maxine floors it.

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Over there, turns the brush.

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After several soggy minutes thumping and bumping, this duct tape myth suddenly stalls.

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Car's dead.

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Only on MythBusters. Everyone's worried about the duct tape.

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But the only thing that's busted is the engine. The tape hasn't budged.

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The G-Force alone should have torn that thing apart. But look at that. The hood ornament did not fall off.

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I gotta say, I think we're going to have to call this one confirmed.

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Absolutely confirmed.

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Totally confirmed.

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Jamie and Adam have worked out the amount of duct tape they'll need to build a bridge.

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But before they decide on a design, they need to know exactly what space they'll be spanning.

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This is our chasm. 108 feet from this wall to that wall. It is this distance that we have to span.

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This 50-foot drop last featured in the Seasaw Saga, when it became the launching pad for a little girl.

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After sizing up the gulp-inducing gap,

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Inside is 104 and 2 inches.

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Awesome.

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They return to base for the plan to span.

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Alright. How do you want to do this thing?

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Well, I figured this is basically a rope bridge, so let's make a bunch of rope out of duct tape.

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Okay, I can see that. We make a bunch of ropey strands.

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We could bind a bunch of them together to make the floor.

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And then another couple of probably thick strands for a railing. That would actually be pretty stable.

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And then we can have some big ones along the side that are stretched top to make it stable.

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The small-scale tests showed just five strands of duct tape, eight layers thick,

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can support their weight without major droop.

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But just to be safe, they'll make their walkway ten layers thick.

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Adam's anxious to speed up the taping process.

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I'm about to construct what I hope will be the ultimate automatic duct taping machine.

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Look out. Adam's just itching to invent.

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Step one, some cylinders which fit together, Russian doll style.

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Ha ha ha!

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Alright.

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Attached to a metal strut.

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Okay.

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Which is welded to a support frame.

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It's looking great.

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Just add duct tape and, behold, the duct-o-matic, dispensing ten strands simultaneously.

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Wow.

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It's a new kind of duct tape. Duct tape cables.

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Honestly, at this point, I trust my life to that.

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I can't wait to show this to Jamie.

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He's going to be like, oh, it's a little over a labyrinth.

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Don't you think?

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Hey, check it out. My ten-roll single-pull duct tape cable maker.

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Now that seems to work. I mean, a lot of different ways you could do it, but six to one-half dozen the other, huh?

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Yeah.

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With Adam basking in Jamie's effusive admiration, they measure out the required distance.

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Okay, that's 104 feet to right here.

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And get down to some serious bridge building, starting with the floor.

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It's like we're making the world's biggest sweater.

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Yeah!

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Whoo!

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Hold on, slow down.

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That's a workout.

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Yeah!

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Best number five. Let's bind them together.

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Those five strands, each one ten layers thick, are stuck together to form a narrow walkway.

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It may not look like much, but it might just save my life.

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Next, Jamie produces a pair of handrails with a twist.

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Perfect.

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The rope-like cable should give them a good grip.

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I like the way that it seems kind of nice and old, don't you?

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Yeah, I totally agree.

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That's ten strands.

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With the walkway, handrails, and stabilizing rails complete, they're all set.

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That's the great thing about a duct tape bridge.

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It's so portable.

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Just fold and roll.

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That's not bad. Shall we go build a bridge with it?

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I think so.

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Okay.

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It's the Mythbusters second duct tape special.

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Alright, Carrie, why do you look so happy?

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Because I love the next duct tape myth.

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And what is that?

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Well, this was sent in by tons of viewers.

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It's that you can stop a car using only duct tape.

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What?

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Well, the beauty of this is there's two parts of the myth.

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The first one is based on a practical joke.

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That you can duct tape a car to a telephone pole, and it won't go anywhere.

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Technically not stopping a car, but actually preventing it from moving.

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Well, technically.

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But the second part of this is definitely stopping a car.

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It's that you can use one roll of duct tape, build a barrier,

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and catch a car going 60 miles an hour.

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Now that one I like.

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Right?

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Right.

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The first part of this myth is a prank par excellence.

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A devious dude duct tapes his friend's car to a pole.

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The victim steps on the gas, but can't escape the grip of the tape.

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We all know if we use enough duct tape, you can pretty much stick anything to a pole.

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I think the whole point of this is see how we can keep the car stationary

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with the least amount of duct tape.

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All they need for this one is a car and a convenient pole.

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We're not supposed to destroy this one.

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That is the last time we carpool together.

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Thanks to Adam's earlier test, the team already knows the breaking point of a single strand of tape.

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67.3 pounds of force to break it.

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All they have to do is determine the car's pulling power

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and work out how much tape it'll take to counter that force.

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So what we're going to do is get the force meter so that it's not going to move.

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So what we're going to do is get the force meter, strap it to the car and attach it to the pole.

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Then Grant's going to drive forward.

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At the point it stops moving forward.

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That is how much force this car pulls with.

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Okay, that's 1,300 pounds. It maxed at 1,300.

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Let's do the math. The car pulls 1,300 pounds.

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One strand of duct tape breaks at 67 pounds.

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So in theory, wrapping the car 20 times should be just enough to stop it driving away.

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I think we just go for 20 and see if it'll work.

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You know, I think this duct tape might actually stop this car.

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Tori and Carrie play a prank. For science, you understand.

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Hey you kids, what are you doing to my car?

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I have the sneaking suspicion that there are going to be prankster victims everywhere that are going to be blaming mythbusters for this myth being true.

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And so we say, in the vain hope of pranksters paying the slightest attention, please don't try this at home.

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What's this?

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In case pole falls on your head.

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Okay, Grant, time to rev up this myth.

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Wow!

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Wow!

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100 RPM.

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It's 3,000.

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We're getting a few breaks there, but it's actually holding the car in place.

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Tori!

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Woohoo!

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He stopped the car, we got you!

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Yes!

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That's incredible!

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With the smoke clears, let's talk about this.

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I think it's confirmed!

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Just five rolls of tape were enough to keep the car in its pole position.

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One strand broke, that was it.

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Look at that.

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I cannot believe this myth is confirmed.

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Confirmed!

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Woohoo!

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Yeah!

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Woohoo!

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Woohoo!

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Woohoo!

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Adam and Jamie are rolling out their duct tape bridge.

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These five strips of duct tape are our bridge.

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We've got our walkway, we've got two hand rails, and two stabilizing rails.

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Why are we hooking them up to these trucks?

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Well, we think this stuff is going to stretch, and if it stretches, it droops, and we can't have that.

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So we're going to pre-assemble it up here on the trucks and pre-stretch it before we put it across the span.

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They'll attach the walkway, hand rails, and stabilizing ropes to heavy-duty steel anchor points.

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When it comes time to walk, those frames will anchor either end of the bridge and help keep the duct tape under tension.

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Pre-stretching the duct tape should prevent any sudden sag.

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With the bridge suspended between the pickups, Adam and Jamie go through their pre-walk stretching routine.

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I think this is going to work!

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Hoping to take all the elasticity out of the duct tape before they venture out over a 50-foot drop.

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Pre-stretching this bridge is turning out to be a little trickier than we thought.

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The different components are stretching at different rates under different loads.

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We're just going to do the best we can and hope that it works.

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When they take their first few practice steps...

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That's kind of how you used to go to grade school, right?

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I don't want to do that.

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It's immediately clear they're going to need more tape.

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah, I think we do want to add in some stringers between these things on the floor.

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Because you could be all like, whoa, good on your matamale!

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Dude, whoa, yeah, see, I... whoa!

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This is going to be terrifying.

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Duck tape crust ruts between the walkway and handrails will minimize wobble.

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And with those last-minute structural improvements, the bridge is ready to go.

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196 rolls of duct tape, almost 400 pounds of the stuff,

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and our bridge is pretty much ready to string across the chasm.

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Now, I've marked the midpoint here because, in my opinion, it's once we pass this point that I think we're home free.

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See, this point, being the farthest from both ends, is actually where this bridge could cause us the most trouble.

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It could possibly turn turtle and flip us over when we get here.

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Getting the pre-assembled bridge across the chasm is a feat in itself.

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They lower one end into the dry dock, haul it 100 feet to the other side,

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then use some heavy machinery to do some heavy lifting, all without damaging the duct tape.

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It's one thing to see it on the ground.

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Quite another, watching it go up across the chasm.

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Not many people know that Jamie has actually performed surgery with a forklift.

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With the aggro points locked down, Adam and Jamie finally bridge the gap between duct tape fantasy and duct tape reality.

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You know what that is, my friend?

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That's a bridge.

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That is a bridge.

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It's always a good day for us when we're able to use tools and materials in ways for which they were never intended.

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The duct tape bridge, well, I daresay the guy that invented this stuff had no intent whatsoever to use it to make bridges with.

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Will it work? There's only one way to find out.

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Don't try anything you've seen on the show at home.

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We are what you call experts.

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Just five rolls of duct tape can keep a car parked.

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Now, Grant, Tori and Carrie want to supersize this automotive myth.

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How crazy is this myth that you can catch a car using a single roll of duct tape?

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Yeah, that does seem a little ridiculous.

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But I mean, you saw how well it held the car together when you were driving around like a maniac.

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Maybe we just wrap it around two telephone poles.

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Versus a car going 60?

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I have seen crazier things on this show. Let's do it.

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Tori, Carrie and Grant are on the road again.

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Telephone poles are few and far between out here, so they'll use something a little more concrete.

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We're setting up K-Rail in an arrow formation. This is going to serve two purposes.

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One, it's going to hold our single roll of duct tape car catcher, as well as serve as a barrier for anything that may go out of control.

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The tape is wound around half-inch thick steel rods, forming a single strand, five layers thick.

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And at this point, this fan fable doesn't just look dubious, it looks patently ridiculous.

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And then some.

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Duct tape can do a lot of things, but stopping a car at 60 miles an hour with one roll, I seriously doubt it.

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Ready to put your life on the line for science?

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Oh, I'm ready. Do we really need helmets on?

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Yes. I'm going to go watch from a safe place.

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Okay, I'm ready. Are you in position?

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Stand by.

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Okay, this is single roll of duct tape on your go.

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Okay, here we go.

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Tori hits the gas.

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The car hits the duct tape.

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And the myth hits the mech atom.

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Okay, so maybe you didn't need the helmets.

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I didn't even get up to 60 miles an hour. That was like 40.

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Oh well.

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I can't believe it, bro.

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We couldn't stop a car with a single roll of duct tape.

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All right, well, let's do what we do on this show and supersize it.

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Yeah, but I mean, we could build a wall 10 feet thick with duct tape, and that should stop a car.

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I mean, where do we draw the line?

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Well, that's kind of totally impractical. Let's see what we could do in a day.

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I mean, maybe 100 rolls of duct tape.

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All right, sounds great.

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So this is how we're going to do it.

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We have two pipes on either side here, and we're going to wrap the duct tape around it until it's thick enough to the point where we think it's going to stop the car.

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Back at Alameda, they've got a solid wall three inches thick made from a hundred rolls of duct tape.

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Well, that is one thick wall of duct tape.

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No one's willing to drive into this duct tape barrier, so they've got a plan.

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Now, in order to get the car to hit the barrier, we're going to tow it.

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And Tori's made a tow bar that's going to keep the car going in exactly the direction we want it to go.

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Now, at the bottom of the wall, right dead center is a steel plate, and connected to that plate is a pulley.

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The tow cable is going to go through that pulley so that as we tow the car towards the barrier, it's going to want to center right on that pulley and aim right for the wall.

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And just in case the cable comes loose, the car goes AWOL.

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How I've missed you so.

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Grants brought along an old friend.

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What this radio is doing is sending a signal to a receiver on the roof.

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The receiver on the roof controls a solenoid valve down here.

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Solenoid valve provides air to this cylinder.

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Now, when I turn this off, it actually takes the foot off the brake and allows the car to roll.

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When I go safe, it deploys the brake automatically and the car stops.

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With the car under Grants control, they're good to go.

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It's got the car right here. It's running. The brakes are on. All they need to do is flip this switch and it disengages the brakes and it's ready to go.

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And at that point, the tow vehicle will hit the accelerator pulling that car down the track through the pulley system headed straight for our wall of duct tape.

469
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Alright, here we go. Carrying brake is off.

470
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000
He's into it in three, two, one, go.

471
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Here it comes.

472
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,000
The pickup picks up speed. 60 miles per hour.

473
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000
The test car hurdles towards a date with duct tape destiny.

474
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:08,000
But at the last second, the experiment hits a bit of a snag.

475
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Somehow, the car hit everything except the wall of duct tape. What happened?

476
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:22,000
I thought I saw the tow cable slip off of the guide car, but it was just a car length before the K-rails.

477
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:27,000
The cable came through so late, Grant didn't even have time to hit the brakes.

478
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:31,000
But there is some good news. The duct tape barriers undamaged.

479
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,000
So we are going to go for a ride.

480
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:41,000
We're going to take this failure, figure out how to fix it, and we're going to try it again because we are not giving up here.

481
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Looking great. Right on target.

482
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:48,000
Still ahead, more duct tape demolition.

483
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Carry, Tori and Grant want to see if a duct tape super barrier can stop a speeding car.

484
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000
But on their first attempt, failure won't stop.

485
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:05,000
We lost the connection between our tow vehicle and this vehicle and it veered to the right and crashed.

486
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:09,000
Now what we're going to do is just put a rope clip on there so it's not going to come off.

487
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:13,000
And we've moved our breakaway line up to the tow vehicle itself.

488
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:19,000
So if anything gets caught in the pulley, that breakaway cable will break away and everybody will be safe.

489
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,000
And we're going to go for a ride.

490
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:27,000
So if anything gets caught in the pulley, that breakaway cable will break away and everybody will be safe.

491
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,000
They're not about to let rain dampen their quest for duct tape data.

492
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Here we go.

493
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:39,000
The test car is soon taxing down the runway with Tori and Grant in hot pursuit.

494
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:42,000
It's got it, it's got it, it's got it.

495
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:53,000
That was awesome! Yeah!

496
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Once again, the car brought the K-Rank but it also wiped out the duct tape wall, didn't it?

497
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:05,000
So it looks like the duct tape wall wasn't strong enough to stop the car.

498
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Dude, check it.

499
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:11,000
Oh no! The wall is still together.

500
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000
I think we've got a problem.

501
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000
It just broke away from the K-Rail.

502
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,000
You know what? I think we better take a look at the high speed and see what happened.

503
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,000
Alright.

504
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000
The duct tape wall stayed intact and it ripped it out of the K-Rail.

505
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:30,000
I can't believe that. I mean that's a huge amount of shock that absorbed right there.

506
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000
While the guys are absorbing the shock of another failed test,

507
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,000
the fact that the wall is still in one piece after being hit by the car

508
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,000
means this myth has a definite whiff of plausibility.

509
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:53,000
We're about to find out if Jamie and Adam can walk the walk on the world's most unusual bridge.

510
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,000
We have spanned a hundred foot chasm with nothing but duct tape.

511
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:03,000
Soon we will take that long walk into duct tape history.

512
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
And just in case that walk becomes a plunge,

513
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,000
a crane mounted safety rig will turn them into human tignatas.

514
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,000
Yeah, this will work.

515
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
I'm having a great time.

516
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Here's the thing about the safety system.

517
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000
I know that this yoyo fall arrestor will save my life,

518
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,000
but if this bridge should fail and it has to save my life,

519
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
I'm going to be swinging, I'm going to fall and get pulled up short.

520
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000
Either way, it's going to be terrifying and it's going to hurt.

521
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000
It's not just pride that makes me not want this bridge to fail.

522
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000
Our small scale tests say it should hold.

523
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000
We've done the math, everything should be fine, but it's duct tape.

524
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
What are you going to do?

525
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Adam's a little lighter than Jamie, so he's going first.

526
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000
It'll be less stress on the tape.

527
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:54,000
Just remember, if you hear a ripping sound, run really fast for the other side.

528
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Thanks for nothing.

529
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,000
Good luck.

530
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Thanks.

531
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Here we go.

532
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:06,000
Nearly 200 rolls of duct tape, a 50-foot drop and one 175-pound myth buster.

533
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,000
All for the glory.

534
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,000
All right.

535
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
Here we go.

536
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000
Oh.

537
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000
Oh.

538
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,000
Hey, I don't mind saying I'm kind of freaked out.

539
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Oh.

540
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,000
All right, it feels pretty solid and it's not hard for me to stay upright.

541
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
The handles are working just great.

542
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
My heart's beating about 175 times a minute though.

543
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Whoa.

544
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000
People walk on bridges like this every day?

545
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
This is terrifying.

546
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Nearing the middle of the bridge, he enters the real danger zone.

547
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:53,000
This is where the duct tapes most likely to fail and flip Adam into thin air.

548
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,000
I'm passing halfway.

549
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,000
So, I've passed the danger of turtling.

550
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,000
Oh dude, this is rough.

551
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
You've got about 10 feet to go.

552
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,000
Oh, now it feels much more stable.

553
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Now I feel okay.

554
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Two and a half minutes after starting out, Adam sets foot on solid ground.

555
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Hey, good to see you.

556
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Oh, land feels good.

557
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000
Good land, good solid ground.

558
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000
It's another world first.

559
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000
He's just crossed a hundred foot chasm on a bridge made of duct tape.

560
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000
I wouldn't have called this, but I actually felt quite stable out at the center.

561
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000
And for the first 15 or 20 feet.

562
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:44,000
But the first third and the last third were really the roughest patch where the thing moves around a lot more than feels good.

563
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,000
All right, your turn.

564
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Jamie steadies himself to make the return journey.

565
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Adam found it terrifying.

566
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,000
I'm going to find it a lot worse than terrifying because I really don't like heights.

567
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000
His slightly heavier frame will put added stress on the duct tape.

568
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Oh gosh, here we go.

569
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:11,000
And as soon as he puts his best foot forward, it's clear this won't be a smooth crossing.

570
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Now I know what it feels like to be a spider.

571
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Or maybe is it a bug in a spider web?

572
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000
That really is quite hairy.

573
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:32,000
A third of the way across and Jamie's struggling to maintain his balance.

574
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:44,000
This wiggling around is kind of something I don't want to be doing.

575
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Honestly, I'm not sure he's going to make it.

576
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Both Jamie and the bridge are teetering on the brink of failure.

577
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
Oh, there's more ripped tape.

578
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000
TORRY GRANT AND CARRIER

579
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Torry, Grant and Carrie are hoping it'll be third time lucky for their duct tape roadblock.

580
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,000
It's the same setup with one or two heavy duty add-ons.

581
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:27,000
We have shackles rated at 30,000 pounds connecting our duct tape barrier to our carials.

582
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,000
This should do the job.

583
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:36,000
With Torry's tow bar and Grant's RC braking system good to go, car number three is ready for takeoff.

584
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Great, you ready? I'm ready.

585
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:45,000
Okay, brake is off. Here we go. In three, two, one, hit it.

586
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:51,000
Good, got a good start. Just getting up good speed.

587
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000
20.

588
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,000
Carrie picks up the pace.

589
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Looking great. Right on target.

590
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Really good. Really good.

591
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Oh, we're going to do it this time, dude.

592
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000
This is it.

593
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
The car hit the duct tape dead on.

594
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
That was worth all that suffering.

595
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Oh my gosh.

596
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Look at that.

597
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
That was right through.

598
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000
What would you say? Three inches? Two and a half inches of duct tape?

599
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,000
Easily.

600
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Oh, that's three inches for sure.

601
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000
But the duct tape didn't give up without a fight.

602
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Despite being hit with a force totaling nearly 300,000 foot-pounds,

603
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000
the barrier still stretched like a piece of elastic before finally snapping.

604
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,000
The wall stretched four to six feet before it gave up,

605
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,000
just like it's supposed to all that time absorbing energy.

606
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:54,000
Still an amazing product, but nope, not able to stop the car.

607
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Now sure we could have made one that was two feet thick,

608
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:02,000
but let's face it, we bust up the K-rail and that stuff is made to stop cars.

609
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000
Looks like this one's busted.

610
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
We found something duct tape finally can't do.

611
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Man.

612
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
We got enough duct tape left over to fix that thing.

613
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,000
Man.

614
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Meanwhile, Jamie's trapped in a nightmare.

615
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
He's finding out the hard way that one of duct tape's main features,

616
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,000
its elasticity, isn't so great when you're 50 feet off the ground.

617
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Every movement triggers more vibration.

618
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000
It's taking all his strength just to stay upright.

619
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,000
I'm going to sit here and rest a second.

620
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Okay.

621
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000
Despite pre-stretching the tape's losing tension,

622
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Andy hasn't even made it to the perilous midpoint.

623
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
Man, you passed that halfway point.

624
00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Is that all?

625
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,000
It feels like I've been going for a mile.

626
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
I don't mind saying I'm hyperventilating.

627
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000
The bridge is so unstable, he must inch his way to safety.

628
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000
It's taken him four times longer than Adam,

629
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:22,000
but Jamie finally makes it back to Terra Ferma.

630
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
Ladies and gentlemen, they are made of brass.

631
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
James Heineman, congratulations!

632
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
That is absolutely awful.

633
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,000
That's really saying something,

634
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,000
given the other fears he's faced in the name of myth-busting.

635
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:38,000
I've been buried alive.

636
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,000
I've been charged by great white sharks.

637
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,000
This thing here is terrifying in a totally different way.

638
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,000
It's not so bad walking across something like this,

639
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,000
just like going over the heights with it.

640
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:57,000
The problem is that you're just on the verge

641
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,000
when you get a little ways out into it of losing balance.

642
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,000
It's like there's nothing solid to hold on to.

643
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:12,000
Walking across it is this constant, intense correction

644
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000
to try and dampen out the wiggly waves

645
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000
that you're setting up on these ropes.

646
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:23,000
Viewing both walks, it's clear Adam was on a much firmer footing.

647
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,000
Why was the bridge so wobbly for me?

648
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Could be me, could be the material, though.

649
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,000
We do know that it stretches out quite a bit under a load,

650
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,000
and Adam did in fact put a load on it.

651
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,000
One way or another, it worked,

652
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
but it's not an ideal material for a bridge.

653
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000
I gotta say I'm pretty impressed with this stuff.

654
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000
It's a bridge, it's a rope, it can shoot, it can float.

655
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000
Just two sides and infinite possibilities.

656
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
Verdict, is there anything duct tape can't do?

657
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,000
Two episodes and counting, almost nothing.

658
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,000
You know we're far from finished,

659
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000
we're going to find crazier crap to do with this stuff.

660
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
Yeah, but that's another episode. Let's go.

661
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,000
I think we need to get airborne with this stuff.

662
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Absolutely.

663
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,000
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664
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,000
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