The Offical Bar-Lok Poll

[whytheheckme]

After many disputes, it is time to settle this once and for-all.

I must agree with Andy Grady on this one....

Jacob

[Gabe]

Well, looking at the poll results, it seems that zip-ties is the most common answer...

Is there a joke that I am missing somewhere about Bar-Lok?

[Edit]Thanks for explaining that little part [Edit]

[whytheheckme]

Well, looking at the poll results, it seems that zip-ties is the most common answer...

Is there a joke that I am missing somewhere about Bar-Lok?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=623107#post623107
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49065&page=2&highlight=bar-lok

going back as far as
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11279

Jacob

[Kyle]

Yea its Zip Ties no question.

[JBotAlan]

How do you figure they're "Bar-Lok"s anyway? It definitely says "Bar-Lok(r) Cable Ties" on the bag...

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Diddlee-dee... I call them cable ties... it's what they're USED FOR!

[Alexa Stott]

Diddlee-dee... I call them cable ties... it's what they're USED FOR!

Unless you, like, put them in people's hair or something.

It's zip ties, though.

[John Gutmann]

No matter what you use them for they are tieing with a nice little zip......cant get enough of that zip noise.....ohhh yesss......

-John

[whytheheckme]

Well, according to wiki, Bar-Lok is another name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_tie

(BTW... I did not add it to the wiki page. ;) )

Jacob

[Grant Cox]

Coming into robotics, I had always called them "tie straps" when using them in RC cars and such. My dad's an electrical engineer, and that's what he called them, so that's what I called them.

I'll never forget my first day, when we got to work on building the field, and our head of mechanical told me to give her some zip ties. "Some whats?" "....zip ties." "Oh you mean tie straps, right?" "....no, what the heck is a tie strap"

I tried to maintain my terminology as long as I could.. but it was no use :p

[whytheheckme]

YAYAYAY!!!!

Mike M. is on my side! See! Now I have almost 3% of the vote :D

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:(

Oh well. Wait till Andy Grady comes back online. I'm sure he'll be with me!

Jacob

[65_Xero_Huskie]

We call them tie wraps. I think it might just depend on where your from on what you call them.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

No matter what you use them for they are tieing with a nice little zip......cant get enough of that zip noise.....ohhh yesss......

-John

Err... that zip noise and other noises like it (Velcro un... velcroing, for instance) hurt my ears like nails on a chalk board.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

YAYAYAY!!!!

Mike M. is on my side! See! Now I have almost 3% of the vote :D

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:(

Oh well. Wait till Andy Grady comes back online. I'm sure he'll be with me!

Jacob

And I've got Andy Baker on my side... no one beats Andy Baker... Refer to this thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45474) if you'd like to dispute that.

[Schnabel]

Seems that Zip Ties is winning. ZZZZZZZZZZIP

[Taylor]

Although I believe their name is Cable Ties, I call them Zip Strips.
How good is a poll that tells you the "correct" answer, anyway? (although not many people pick that one)

[Cynette]

At work we call them electrical ties. Something different, and yet logical.

[Andy Grady]

Ya know...

I'm sure back in the day, there were neigh-sayers out there who called playdough, "modeling clay".

Or maybe Kleenex, "nasal tissue".

Or Coca Cola..."Carbonated Soda Beverage"


Eventually the bold ones win out. Good always wins over evil in the end.


I mean seriously...Americans are stubborn when it comes to things like this. Just look at the metric system.

Just keep callin them Bar-Loks my friend. Eventually the rest of the world will be infected.

-Andy Grady

[lukevanoort]

I usually call them zip ties, (well, they do make a zipping noise and they hold things together, like tying a string around them) but I have been known to call them chain tensioners from time to time.

[DonRotolo]

Ty-Rap, like Bar-Lok, is a registered trademark for a brand of cable ties. Zip may have been a trademark at one time (like Aspirin) but it's not now.

Just as long as the communication is clear for everyone, you can call them "Luxury Yacht"* for it matters.

Don

(* Pronounced "Throat-warbler Mangrove")

[Zyik]

I can still remember scouting Team Voltage and the conversation I had with one of them about zip-ties vs. Tye-wraps.

I've always called them zip ties, they do make that zipping noise... Never heard of Bar Lok before.

[Tristan Lall]

I mean seriously...Americans are stubborn when it comes to things like this. Just look at the metric system.Remember the Mars Climate Orbiter (http://www4.cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/10/orbiter.03/)?

That's what's coming to you, if you persist in calling them Bar-Loks. :p