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Re: Al's Annual Inspection Thread

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Siri,
You can secure the surgical tubing to itself (after you have wrapped the tubing around a structural part of your robot) using ty-wraps as there is very little load on the ty-wrap when the tubing is in motion. You don't want to use them in place of hardware (as a tie bar or link) to secure one end to a stationary part of your robot. The dynamic loads could cause them to fail.
Thanks, Al. Understood; this is the way we use them.
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