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]

Originally Posted by 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?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...107#post623107
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hlight=bar-lok

going back as far as
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.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]

Originally Posted by Budda648

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

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Originally Posted by 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

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

[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

[whytheheckme]

YAYAYAY!!!!

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

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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]

Originally Posted by whytheheckme

YAYAYAY!!!!

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

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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 if you'd like to dispute that.

[Cynette]

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