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LPT: If you have a lot of loose zip ties, well cut the head off of one and zip the rest onto that!
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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What? Just put em in a bag, dude...
They came in a bag, I just find it easier and neater to deal with them this way when they get tossed off in a toolbox or the random kitchen junk/fastener drawer.
If you cut a small hole in the bag 1/5 of the way down, it keeps them together and you can bend a tie to get a single one out.
Still doesn't make it any easier to pull out a specific color in a mixed variety color pack..
Good point, I have single-colour bags only.
Ok, now imagine you have like 4000 of them, which normally just fit in a normal sized ziplock bag. Bro is going to sit there for literally hours threading them onto another zip tie.
Oh hell with all that, if I got that many zip ties, I'm just gonna zip tie them in sensible size nobody's really counting bundles.
Zip tie one around them all, with the heads up, and stick a caribiner around the loop one. Then you can stick it on your belt, with the heads facing up. Just make sure to ratchet it tighter a notch every couple you use.
Eventually I moved on to these
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Nice. But I ain't about to buy 4 separate ones at $8.86 each to separate a 100 pack of 4 colors that came out of a mix pack that cost like $3.36 total...
Well no. Thats when you zip tie the ties... but if you're someone who uses a lot of them regularly, for work, the spring loaded ones become pretty useful.
This will go well with my duct tape and chloroform holster
The real lpt alwaysin the commenta
Or a rubber band
Or, now hear me out, you could just wrap the zip ties with..
A zip tie! Genius I know, who woulda guessed?
I bought a bag of 1000 zipties once.
Once.
Were they multicolored?
Nope--black and a single size.
Ok.
I needed colors to tag otherwise unlabeled wire harnesses..
Colors is a good way to do it! I've only had to label wire harnesses a couple times and i used sharpie tick marks on the wires themselves. It worked but was awkward and took time to find the one wire i needed.
I bought ~190m of DC wire once.
Jesu
That's a lot
What for?
I asked for 5m for a science project. A coil of 190m was the minimum they sold.
It wasn't too expensive (not copper), so I went with it.
That's actually hilarious. What did you do with the leftover??
I still keep it in a cardboard box full of other electronics related stuff, which includes my shitty soldering iron (which is shitty enough to have made me thought that I was bad at soldering, until I once put my hands on a Weller) and other pieces of out of dysfunctional electronics that I have hoarded, thinking that I might do something with them, someday.
I gave this as a reply to your comment because it is in the same spirit.
The iron and the wire are the most used components out of that box.
Well you're not going to run out of wire for a while. lol