Zip Ties. How do I love thee?

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Let me count the ways... Where would humanity be without them?

(inane topic #472290)

Discuss, debate and divulge your best zip tie story! Boom poles, wire wrangling...

I just repaired a wicker laundry basket. Beat that.

 

[JoshL]

Cleaning off my desk, finding a bundle of zip ties that had been sitting there for YEARS (taken from an old job). Thinking, I don't need these, I've never used them and they're just clutter, so in the trash they go.

Two months later, at home depot buying zip ties because, of course, I needed them. *sighs*

Less a "yay zip ties" story, and more a "josh is an idiot" story. Mostly because I have more of those!

 

[Uranium City]

They hold up my privacy fence, and are the strongest part of the fence.

 

[kinglis]

I've never used one myself and I'm still alive, I think...

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Zip ties, Duct tape, and clothespins. The Holy Trinity?

 

[Ernest Worthing]

zip ties, gaffer tape, bungee cords, A clamps...

 

[brettzdamn]

In school once i fliped a kids backpack inside out, put all of his stuff back in it, then i ziptied it shut from the inside . Is that not the type of zip tie stuff you were looking for??

 

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In school once i fliped a kids backpack inside out, put all of his stuff back in it, then i ziptied it shut from the inside . Is that not the type of zip tie stuff you were looking for??

You got it! Total MacGyver move!

 

[kinglis]

bungee cords

 

[CamVader]

You haven't lived until you buy a 100' (30.48M for those that swing that way) roll of double sided Velcro.

 

[Murdock]

I forgot my belt once and used a zip tie to pull two loops together.

When I was in the military we would carry them in our K-pot webbing, just in case.

 

[JakeSully]

Clothepins are c47's...So, what about giving zip ties a name to annoy the shit out of people too?
Like R17's...

 

[Flicker Pictures]

Where did the nickname C47 come from? Is it C-47? Good film trivia.

Yes, R-17 or maybe even ZT-9er? Dunno.

I forgot my belt once and used a zip tie to pull two loops together.

ha! nice.

100' (30.48M for those that swing that way) roll of double sided Velcro.

which has me wondering... where did it all go?

 

[CamVader]

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100' (30.48M for those that swing that way) roll of double sided Velcro.
which has me wondering... where did it all go?

Ask me about the rental car/Transformers experiment some day.