pic: Bar-Loks exist!

[Tim Baird]

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[Greg Needel]

Come now tim...we all know they are really zip ties. Your tireless photoshop work is actully for nil. :p

[ColleenShaver]

No kidding they exist! People just don't know!

I have one of those bags for when people start denying reality as well :-)

[sanddrag]

I'm guessing there was some sort of story behind this. Care to fill the rest of us in?

[Tim Baird]

I'm guessing there was some sort of story behind this. Care to fill the rest of us in?

Haha, yes. For years, Nypro has bought this one brand of 'cable ties' called "Bar-Loks". Due to this, Gael Force has also always used this brand, and past/present members of the team lovingly refer to the products by their brand name. This is much like someone calling a tissue a "Kleenex" or an adhesive bandage a "band-aid".

So, if you know myself, Andy Grady, Colleen Shaver, or any other Gael Force members/alumni, you know that we call them by the name Bar-Lok, and that this usage of the name is typically followed by jesting and teasing from our friends on non-bar-lok-using-teams.

[Andy Baker]

It's cable ties... just like I said (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11279) back in 2002.

I'll be attending the "Assembly Technology Expo" in Chicago next week, where the vendors for all types of these things will be hawking their stuff. I'll check again to see who has market share. If Panduit (http://www.panduit.com/search/search_results.asp?N=5000001&Ntk=All&Ntt=cable%20tie&Nty=1&D=cable%20tie&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=P_RollupKey) still has the market share, then I suggest severe penalties for anyone who calls them Bar-Loks (sheesh... they can't even spell Lock correctly), Tie Wraps, or any other wrong name.

... unless, of course, you can produce a bag with a picture on the front, as at the top of this thread.

:)

Andy B.

[ChuckDickerson]

Jeez, I thought I got some dumb looks when I say "Hand me some zippies, please" or "Make sure you zippy those wires down". I can't imagine the looks of utter confusion I would get if I asked for some bar-locs! I do know I wish I had invented those things though. I swear I must have used several million of them in my lifetime. I guess the key to being rich is to invent something cheap and disposable that everyone uses like zip-ties or paper towels or trash bags. We just keep using them, throwing them away and buying more!

[Tim Baird]

... unless, of course, you can produce a bag with a picture on the front, as at the top of this thread.
Keep your eye on your mailbox there, Baker...

[KenWittlief]

when you hook one end into the other and pull it quickly

does it go : ZZZZZZZZZZiP !

or does it go: BAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrLoooooooooOOOOOGK !

?

[ntroup]

I used to get strange looks from my team when I asked for ZipTies.. They all called them cable-tie or tie-wraps... but I think I have converted them all to my terminology now :yikes:

[Andy Grady]

People people people...this is very simple...

Imagine you have never heard of either a Bar-Lok or a Zip Tie.

Now, you are about to be tied by the waste at the end of a horizontal pole going out over a 500ft cliff. The person doing the tieing gives you a choice. "What would you like to be tied to the pole with...a Bar-Lok or a Zip Tie?"

Wouldn't you be just slightly more comfortable trusting your safety to something with a strong name like "Bar-Lok" instead of a little whimpy "Zip Tie" or "Tie Wrap".

Thats what I thought!

Geez, next thing you know, people are gonna be calling 12 foot long sandwiches "Hoagies" instead of grinders....or even worse, Milkshakes instead of Frappes! ::gulp!::

[Elgin Clock]

Geez, next thing you know, people are gonna be calling 12 foot long sandwiches "Hoagies" instead of grinders....or even worse, Milkshakes instead of Frappes! ::gulp!::

Ok ok.. I follow you with the whole Grinder thing.. (Good to go.), but wth is a Frappe??
Does that rhyme with happy?? :confused:

[KenWittlief]

Ok ok.. I follow you with the whole Grinder thing.. (Good to go.), but wth is a Frappe??
Does that rhyme with happy?? :confused:

wait, no - it rhymes with hap eh!
Frappe: The highest setting on a blender

[Jay H 237]

I'll be attending the "Assembly Technology Expo" in Chicago next week, where the vendors for all types of these things will be hawking their stuff.

McCormick Place? (http://www.mccormickplace.com/)

I've gone there for the National Plastics Expo (NPE). My company was just out there for a trade show this past June although I didn't go this time.

[JaneYoung]

If someone in the shop says, 'Jane, we need some zip ties', I'm going to go in the cage and get some out of a drawer.

If someone in the shop says, 'Jane, we need a Bar-Lok', I'm going to think they are speaking in Klingon.

[Elgin Clock]

If someone in the shop says, 'Jane, we need a Bar-Lok', I'm going to think they are speaking in Klingon.

If someone said that to me.. I would think they wanted to lock up their bike with those funky shaped U locks.

[Jon K.]

Ok ok.. I follow you with the whole Grinder thing.. (Good to go.), but wth is a Frappe??
Does that rhyme with happy?? :confused:
Silly Silly Elgin, a Frappe is like but completely different from a milkshake. Milkshakes are usually thinner in consistancy and less viscous then the Frappe. A frappe might as well just be blended ice cream. Andy Grady you of all people should know the difference and know that you can't compare the two like they are the same.

[team222badbrad]

Ok,

Its not Tie Wraps, Cable Ties, or Bar-Loks.

Who uses Tie Wraps to wrap things together?

or

Who uses Cable Ties to tie just cables?

or

Who uses Bar-Loks to lock just bars together?

You can only use the terminology above if you are using Zip Ties specifically for the purpose in which their name implies...

A Zip Tie always zips things together, but then again they don't really tie.

:ahh:

[Al Skierkiewicz]

I used to get strange looks from my team when I asked for ZipTies.. They all called them cable-tie or tie-wraps... but I think I have converted them all to my terminology now :yikes:
No, I still call them ty-wrap, you just aren't listening.

[Andy A.]

I call 'em chew toys.

Nothing takes the stress out of a regional like mashing a bit of textured plastic between your teeth. It's kind of like smoking, but with fewer carcinogens (I think). Once you start doing it, you can't quit.

-Andy A.

[KenWittlief]

Now, you are about to be tied by the waste at the end of a horizontal pole going out over a 500ft cliff. The person doing the tieing gives you a choice. "What would you like to be tied to the pole with...a Bar-Lok or a Zip Tie?"


I would say "oh look, your shoe is untied!"

then wack the person over the head with said pole, and run like 60!

(engineers always have a Plan B !)