Cut off plastic cable tie ends - Uses for

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Texas Slock has issued another challenge and prize

If you save them, why? What do you do with them?

Me? I throw them in my box of soldering supplies, along with irons, flux, bits of wire, crimp connectors, crimp pliers, solder, colored tape, and shrink tube.

Generally crimp connections are used by OEMs in automotive, aero, and marine because they are quick and reliable as they allow more physical wire flexibility. That resists vibration fatigue cracking of the joint.

That said, we all like our soldering irons

So, Whenever I solder two wires together I slip a section of cut off wire tie inside the shrink tube to act as a spporting splint before shrinking it. The purpose is to prevent vibration from fatigue cracking the joint.
 
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I sure hope somebody comes up with a super good use for these things because, in our (wife and me) business, I generate hundreds of these decapitated zip ties.

I hereby declare the prize (100 zip ties) is boosted and enhanced by the addition of 100 decapitated ties.

Slick
 
This is an amazing coincidence. After I bagged this beauty in Scotland, with (OK I was boasting before but now I admit it was 2 pop-rivet shafts), we used the the heat from my friends Land Rover exhaust manifold and we were able to fuse together a number of Cable tie tails in order to make a sort of rope long enough to drag that beast down to the nearest butcher were we were paid handsomely and came away with some ornaments for the wall of my friends country residence - a place he calls Balmoral.




Cheers,

cliffa.
 
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Cut off plastic cable tie ends - Uses for
 
I've used them in two different situations:
1: When needing to fully remove a battery terminal bolt on my bikes, the semi-captive nut drops down such that the bolt cannot reach into its threads when trying to Re tighten. Using the zip tie end as a spacer/lever, I can lift the nut up enough to engage the bolt.

2: One of my bikes has an auto chain oiler (Tutoro brand) and the dipper end can be made with zip tie ends. These are placed into the oil tubing as a pair, then the loose ends pass either side of rear sprocket. Oil then runs along tie plastic until it contacts the sprocket. Using the pair, both sides of sprocket get oiled.
 
Tornado said:
I've used them in two different situations:
1: When needing to fully remove a battery terminal bolt on my bikes, the semi-captive nut drops down such that the bolt cannot reach into its threads when trying to Re tighten. Using the zip tie end as a spacer/lever, I can lift the nut up enough to engage the bolt.

2: One of my bikes has an auto chain oiler (Tutoro brand) and the dipper end can be made with zip tie ends. These are placed into the oil tubing as a pair, then the loose ends pass either side of rear sprocket. Oil then runs along tie plastic until it contacts the sprocket. Using the pair, both sides of sprocket get oiled.
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I use that white foam packaging under the battery nuts to keep them up against the top of the terminal, but cable ties are a good idea too.
 
cliffa said:
I use that white foam packaging under the battery nuts to keep them up against the top of the terminal, but cable ties are a good idea too.
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Yup...one day when I can be bothered, I'll fit some foam or a snip of small diameter rubber tube to keep'em up! Perhaps one day I'll get a battery that is made to eliminate these silly issues!
 
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