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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

Come now tim...we all know they are really zip ties. Your tireless photoshop work is actully for nil.
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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

I have one of those bags for when people start denying reality as well :-)
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

I'm guessing there was some sort of story behind this. Care to fill the rest of us in?
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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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.
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

It's cable ties... just like I said 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 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.



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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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!
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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... 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...
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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

does it go : ZZZZZZZZZZiP !

or does it go: BAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrLoooooooooOOOOOGK !

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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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!::
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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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??
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Ok ok.. I follow you with the whole Grinder thing.. (Good to go.), but wth is a Frappe??
Does that rhyme with happy??
wait, no - it rhymes with hap eh!
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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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?

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.
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Re: pic: Bar-Loks exist!

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.
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