Cable ties - couldn't live without them!!

[Starscream]

Used to fix the blade back on a turf cutter, lasted a whole 2 seconds !!!

 

Oh yeah!! Desperate times though!!! Would have been good if they had worked!

[monkeybusiness]

May I recommend you don't use them to hold the chip box on your truck. I did and they were great up to 89mph. But 90mph proved a bit too much for them and I now I no longer have a chip box but someone on the M50 does

 

Similar story here with a Mantec snorkel on my Defender - I didn't have the heart to drill the windscreen frame to fit so attached with thick cable ties to roofrack and windscreen clamp. Genuinely looked fine (it wasn't obviously bodged), stayed in place for 4000 miles at every speed possible in a Land Rover. However, one day it departed with a bang on the M6. I guess that will teach me for fitting such a tart's accessory!

[peatff]

Cable ties hold a lot of motorbike fairings together as well when the original fittings go missing or split. Cable ties and gaffer tape are essentials these days.

[aspenarb]

Yes, they will one day take over from baler twine!

 

:lol:

 

Go wash your mouth out Mull, it will never happen

 

Bob

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Tripled up some big ones to hold the two ends of a bandtrack together when I broke the fitting staple. They held!

 

(not to be confused with the track joiner!).

[Darrin Turnbull]

Rubber tent awning loops are handy as well.

[treequip]

:lol:

 

Go wash your mouth out Mull, it will never happen

 

Bob

 

It will become scarce as they all go over to net wraps, bloody progress has a lot to answer for

[Logdaft]

They're part of that great family of modern marvels, a rawhide thong for the twenty first century. Sublimely simple, eminently effective and so cheap they might as well grow on trees. The Biro pen, plastic razor, panty liner, toothbrush, lighter, rubber band, PET bottle, bog roll, AA battery, Chapstick, condom, bandaid, plastic bag,...should be a memorial to them and their inventors.

 

+ Sticky Notes, don`t forget them!

[Haironyourchest]

Never used them; maybe I should start...essential for anyone with a desk. The safety pin just came to mind, followed by the paraffin candle (not really modern but still very good). And tweezers. And the disposable Stanley knife blade...

[Logdaft]

Never used them;

 

Sticky Notes have now become my memory & I would be lost without them ... great invention!