ducktape = dampening

nope. i dont have the money to be making trips out there at the moment. gotta wait for another paycheck or 2.
hah i understand.

im supposed to meet up with someone from here who says competes with greg at audio connections.

i forgot what his name on here is.. i think king of cali or something like that.

i talked to him on the phone last night. he seems real cool.

 
Somewhere I sense a major face-palm coming from Don of SDS!
A little bit - as a private moment, but it really isn't a terrible question. For stopping rattles by keeping adjacent parts from making contact when vibrating it will work just about as well as anything else. As a vibration damper it won't help. It is silverish on one side and sticky on the other, but as we've seen with other materials that look even more like proper constrained layer dampers, looking like and performing as are two different things //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 
duct tape should only be used with a banana for example:

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Yes, duct tape will work. It will in fact reduce vibrations.

It is not the best use of the product, nor is it efficient, but it will help to some degree, but it will also require TONS of it to make any difference, and will melt off in to a pile of go within a few weeks of summer.

When using the regular grey type of duct tape we all use for household projects, it is nearly impossible to use enough of it to get similar results that a real vibration damper will provide.

The thing about duct tape is that there are several types. Not all of them look exactlyk like the stuff we are all familiar with.

Tape, the is designed to go on a duct, is duct tape. Even the foil or mylar backed type is still duct tape.

There are 2 companies I know of that are currently a selling duct tape to consumers, and calling it a vibration damper.

many people on this exact forum have bought it, and used it, and continue to reccomend it.

So yes, duct tape, to some degree, will reduce vibrations.

Though the results might not be audible to the human ear, most anything you glue on to a resonating piece of sheet metal will to some degree help reduce vibrations. Even marshmellows..

ANT

 
Though the results might not be audible to the human ear, most anything you glue on to a resonating piece of sheet metal will to some degree help reduce vibrations. Even marshmellows..

ANT
So you're saying my doors can be vibration free and delicious?

oh my god. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

 
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