On 5/18/15 4:22 AM, Buck Rodgers wrote:
On 05/17/2015 10:09 PM, J Burns wrote:
The only sensible answer is duck tape. On lunar TV, Gene Cernan used
it to fix the fender of his dune buggy. A lesser man wouldn't have
dared attempt it, wearing astronaut mitts in an environment where
objects were 400F in the sun and -200F in the shade.

Don't believe everything you see on tv.

*If* we actually went to the moon (and that's a big if), I doubt that
was your typical Harbor Freight duck tape.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/21apr_ducttape/

Cernan: "And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time
to try … to get that fender back on. Jack, is the tape under my seat, do
you remember?" (He's referring to a roll of ordinary, gray duct tape.)
Schmitt: "Yes."
Cernan: "Okay. I can't say I'm very adept at putting fenders back on.
But I sure don't want to start without it. I'm just going to put a
couple of pieces of good old-fashioned American gray tape on it...(and)
see whether we can't make sure it stays."
In spite of his thick gloves, Cernan managed to unroll and tear off the
needed pieces, but moondust foiled his first repair:
Cernan: "…good old-fashioned gray tape doesn't want to stick very well."

Note the dust caked in the rim. It couldn't have happened on the moon
because they'd just unloaded the buggy. Besides, it takes air currents
to make dust double back and hit a rim. NASA tells us there is no air
on the moon.

The valet must have gotten the rim dusty on earth, when he brought the
buggy to be loaded on the lander, and everybody was too busy to brush it
off.