QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!!

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Posted by Justin.

Other on team Blue Lightning Alumni Association from RWU sponsored by FIRST-A-holics Anonymous.

Posted on 9/24/2000 6:59 PM MST


In Reply to: The Answer is... posted by Joe Johnson on 9/24/2000 6:54 PM MST:



Welcome Aboard Team Tie Wrap Joe!!!

Together we can all rid the FIRST community of this blasphemy known as the term bar-lock ;-)

Thanks for your support!!!

-Justin

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Posted by Erin.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Other on team #1, The Juggernauts, from OTC-NE and 3-Dimensional Services.

Posted on 9/24/2000 8:20 PM MST


In Reply to: The Answer is... posted by Joe Johnson on 9/24/2000 6:54 PM MST:



tie wrap. we are very good at using those. our team has found ways to use them as a time-occupier as well. we can even disassemble them sometimes. not bar-lok, i dont even know where you got that from andy

-erin

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Posted by Nate Smith.

Other on team #66, GM Powertrain/Willow Run HS, from Eastern Michigan University and GM Powertrain.

Posted on 9/24/2000 8:58 PM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



For me, i've always called them either wire ties or zip ties...as for the Bar-Lok people(which I've never heard, BTW,) i think that goes back to the 'one brand is kleenex, so do you call all brands that?' question...

Nate

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Posted by Raul.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.

Posted on 9/25/2000 6:33 AM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



OK, I did quick search in the US Patent and Trademark Office. There were 35 instances of patents that used the words 'tie wraps' to describe a device that hold together cables, wires, etc. I also did a search of for 'bar-lok' and 'barlok' and found nothing. If the US Patent office recoginizes 'tie wraps' as the common term to describe this mechanism then who are we to argue?

Raul

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Posted by Justin Stiltner.

Student on team #388, Epsilon, from Grundy High School and NASA, American Electric Power, Town of Grundy.

Posted on 9/25/2000 6:39 AM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



I would like to offically submitt the word (wire tie) for approval of team tie wrap. I am a member of team tie wrap/wire tie.

We sould get together at one of the competitions this year and do somthing with wire ties/tie wraps.

Justin Stiltner
Team 388
Grundy High School
Grundy VA

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Posted by Andy Grady.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Other on team in limbo from in limbo sponsored by in limbo.

Posted on 9/25/2000 10:50 AM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



Ok so maybe more people have heard, or use the term 'Tie Wrap'. However my goal for the year 2001 is to have the term Bar-Lok more widely accepted than that wimpy sounding other name. Bar-Lok sounds a heck of alot more powerful than Tie Wrap (which sounds like a sandwich to me) and I don't know about you, but i want something that sounds powerful in name holding my controls and stuff down! Team Bar-Lok has a promising future, and we got plans for team Tie-Wrap!!! Plus it is now obvious that we are the underdog, and don't you all love to see the underdog win? I know I do. So I urge all of you, to jump ship, and join team Bar-Lok, because if you don't, Justin will never let me hear the end of it!!!!

Thank you,
Andrew Grady, co-founder Team Bar-Lok

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Posted by Justin.

Other on team Blue Lightning Alumni Association from RWU sponsored by FIRST-A-holics Anonymous.

Posted on 9/25/2000 11:33 AM MST


In Reply to: OK, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/25/2000 10:50 AM MST:



Team Tie-Wrap,

I want to call on each and everyone to stick up for all the great engineering minds through out time who have called tie-wraps what they are, tie-wraps (and zip-ties and cable ties). I know that all of you out there don't consider tie-wraps mearly a name but a life saver, the reason you won those finals, what would you do with out them?? All those memories of matches where the words 'GET ME A TIE-WRAP were crucial to the success of your team, and your robot.' To give up on the name tie-wrap would be to give up on those memories, on those robots, and the tie-wraps who performed beyond your expectiations in the heat of a FIRST match. If you jump ship on Team Tie-Wrap you don't just call them something different you jump ship on all those robots who have come before and emerged victorius, just as Team Tie-Wrap will!!!

-Justin

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Posted by Amy .

Student on team #126, Gael Force, from Clinton High and NYPRO.

Posted on 9/25/2000 12:14 PM MST


In Reply to: TEAM TIE-WRAP RALLIES!!! posted by Justin on 9/25/2000 11:33 AM MST:



Actually...it was 'GET ME A BAR-LOK!!!' for us...our torn conveyor belts were held together with Bar-Loks during some of the elimination rounds at Nationals. So there. And, Team Bar-Lok is cuter...:-P

Amy

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Posted by colleen.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #246, Blue Light Special, from John D. O'Byrant High School/Boston Latin Academy and NSTAR/Boston University/UTC/Raytheon/MassPEP.

Posted on 9/25/2000 12:31 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: TEAM TIE-WRAP RALLIES!!! posted by Amy on 9/25/2000 12:14 PM MST:



Amy!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will help you Andy!!

I become part of a team who innocently referred them as 'cable/tie wraps'... and well.. now at least understand the wonder and beauty of the term 'bar-lok'.. they may still not use it themselves... but they are no longer ignorant to the greatness... :-P

You tie wrap your garbage bags...
but you bar-lok you 'bot!!!

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Posted by Raul.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.

Posted on 9/27/2000 6:08 AM MST


In Reply to: Team Bar-lok Rocks! posted by colleen on 9/25/2000 12:31 PM MST:





: You tie wrap your garbage bags...
: but you bar-lok you 'bot!!!


NOT TRUE! You 'twist-tie' your garbage bag! The little plastic covered wires used on garbage bags (and other bags such as used for bread) are called 'twist-ties'

Raul

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Posted by Lora Knepper.

Other on team #419, Rambots, from UMass Boston / BC High and NASA, Mathsoft, Solidworks, Analog Devices.

Posted on 9/25/2000 3:08 PM MST


In Reply to: OK, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/25/2000 10:50 AM MST:



Sorry Andy, Colleen, and Amy (and all of you poor mis-guided souls out there that were brainwashed into Bar-Lok syndrome...) But they will forever be TIE-WRAPS. =) Justin, I stand behind you 150% and then some, Team TIE-WRAP will prevail!

Lora Knepper
Proud Member of Team Tie-Wrap
=D

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Posted by Kristen Kelso.

Student on team #131, C.H.A.O.S., from Manchester Central High and OSRAM SYLVANIA/Fleet.

Posted on 9/25/2000 6:46 PM MST


In Reply to: OK, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/25/2000 10:50 AM MST:



Lol, 126,your the best...but I can't lie...THE NAME IS WIRE TIE! {look it even has a ring to it!}
Also...Great Job to all the teams that were at BASH at the Beach...and congratulations to 237...The team that walked away #1 {You guys once again proved that no matter where you go, you will always be champions, on and off the field!!!!!}
*~*KJK*~*

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Posted by Jason "JDoggyDog" Trotter.

Student on team #191, X-CATS, from Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School.

Posted on 9/25/2000 7:19 PM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



Tomato, tamato

Either way they are cool little devices. Did anyone see that movie with Jet Li- 'Romeo Must Die'- now that was a constructive use of them.

By the way, I official put my hat in for tie wraps, only because I have never heard of Bar-Loks.

Later,
Da JDog- Jason T.

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Posted by Ken.

Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.

Posted on 9/25/2000 7:50 PM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:



I don't know about you, but we over here at California call those things 'zip tie'. But if I have to choose, I have to go for Bar Loks for the 'lock' part.

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Posted by Michael Martus.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central H.S. and Delphi Automotives Systems.

Posted on 9/25/2000 7:51 PM MST


In Reply to: QUESTION OF THE WEEK!!! posted by Andy Grady on 9/24/2000 10:37 AM MST:




I don't care what you call them....but Chief Delphi could not survive without gobbs of them.

We get bulk discounts.