What Is Wrong With People Who Don't Trim Their Zipties?

[Gord Baker]

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[npalen]

there should be a BAD Post option here ... hahaha - they are so very useful IMO


sounds like wire ???


sometimes I trim, sometimes I don't ... only bothers my wife's OCD


if you use them properly, they are secured and tight, as per intended purpose. If you keep them loose / reversed, they can be re-used, and slipped apart - in that case, no point in trimming.

I was thinking they can be released, even if tight, by depressing the locking tab with a small flat blade screwdriver?

 

[Man from Crooked River]

Leave them long....Loose an eye. They are great eye pokers. If trimmed properly, they aren't a problem. If working on job site or service center, occupational health, requires that they are to be trimmed

 

[rtshinn]

First World problem

 

[tjandrews]

What's wrong with those who don't cut them? The same thing that's wrong with people who are OCD about them being cut.

 

[Kschwennsen]

just cut them long and at an angle.

I use alot of electric fence wire and tape. I have zip tied my work lights and extra tool box on my JDs though...

 

[ljjhouser]

I guess this could be an initial design issue at the use management level. Or possibly someone feels that the sun will not affect the zip tie if all the heat is dispersed by the proportionally long tail, leaving the loop unaffected by sunlight. Or.........Maybe not.

 

[rgr33]

Two great ideas from LouNY, that my Swiss cheese brain would never think of.
melt the sharp ends with a soldering iron
double wrap a zip tie

Appreciate the tip, and this is the kind of thing I love about this site.

 

[PILOON]

I've saved those long TIES that they use for election posters.

Handy around a tractor for hoses etc.
Dan things are sure costly.

I rigged a hook blade at the end of a pole so as to liberate them from arms length.

 

[joea99]

did you know there is a zip tie gun? I didn't either till I needed to do 400 of them. I bought one similar to this. its goes quick and cuts flush

https://www.amazon.com/Fastening-Cu...906d04425cc06&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl

Yes I do. Used it a lot. One day, I got a call from my eldest son's school (middle grade) that my son had been caught in school with "a gun" and they were calling the Police.

Turns it it was the bright orange zip tie gun that he took, without asking, to show his friends. Some little flower asked him what it was heard "gun" and freaked out and it went down hill from there. The Troopers refused to act on the matter, but there WAS a School Hearing on the matter. It was quite bizzare as I attempted to acquaint school board members with the difference between WEAPONS called guns and TOOLS called guns. In the end their fall back was "the little girl was scared". They did not take kindly to my observation that perhaps, just perhaps, the school, or (gasp!) the parents, might try a bit of reality orientation with these fragile flowers. The Trooper in attendance (as per protocol) was getting a kick out of the whole thing.

Funny, my kid is over 30 now and I haven't seen that zip tie TOOL in a decade or more. Hmmm.

 

[workinonit]

I never leave home without one of these.

 

[JethroB]

Once had an OCD afflicted IT guy come in and he decided to clean up all the Twinax cabling in our offices with zip ties. I could have strangled him. Back then we were always troubleshooting cable issues in awkward places. It’s hard to trace zip tied cables by hand.

I often don’t cut them because I think I might need to snug them up a bit later. Rarely ever do it though.

 

[bcp]

What's wrong with people who must trim their zipties?

Bruce

 

[chiefcook]

Zip ties, duct tape, bailing wire and JB Weld are necessities around my place. Depends on where I use zip ties whether I cut them or not.

 

[npalen]

Someone mentioned, in an earlier post above, not trimming excess length from guitar strings at the headstock. Now that is 435.665% worse than not trimming zipties.

 

[Willman]

To cut, or not to cut. That is always the question.

I cut for aesthetic reasons, or clearance/functional reasons. If you don't care how it looks, and don't need it trimmed, why bother? Like Diggin said, I have also cut my hands more than once on cut zip ties, which isn't fun.

In my career in the electrical and electronics world I have been poked in the face with uncut ties and have cut hands on snipped ties.
Many guys just use the side cutters to snip the tails but that leaves the sharp ends.
When I wired or built control panels (extremely neat) I would always snip with a flush cut snippers only, this leaves a very smooth non sharp edge.

 

[bcp]

...with sharp corners.



Bruce

 

[Billrog]

After cutting the tie melt the end with a match or lighter and it will be perfectly smooth.

 

[5030]

Being of Scottish lineage I reuse the big ones.

You are cheap are cheap 0r like my wife says, 'frugal'. So am I actually, why I buy mine at Harbor Freight.

 

[Willman]

...with sharp corners.



Bruce

Not with a GOOD flush cut snipers, I have done thousands.