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When a maintenance technician at a plant applied a few standard nylon zip ties in order to stabilize a group of wires near a steam pipe, he assumed that every zip tie is basically the same. Two weeks after, every tie broke. The temperatures in the environment near the pipe were only 110°C, while the […]

When an apprentice made a choice to use a bunch of ties to attach a packet of armored wires to a tray, he went for the longest ties available to him at that point — ties with a length of 12 inches that could cover the entire cable. By the end of the workday, three […]

When the solar farm operator performed his cable bundle inspections in Arizona after two years of operating his solar farm, he came up with a familiar sight. The black UV‑stabilised nylon cable ties that were put to use stood the test of time and were just as good as new. However, the natural-coloured ties, which […]

Upon making a visit to the supply house to retrieve “a bag of cable ties” for a paneling project, the apprentice electrician brought back 4‑inch ties rated to hold 18 pounds each. The head electrician examined the ties and disapproved. The bundles they were trying to secure measured 2 inches in diameter, which was too […]

When an employee believed that using a few 18-pound zip ties would be enough to hang a cable bundle in the theatre, he did not consider that the movement caused by the air conditioner would significantly increase the stresses at the heads of the ties throughout the entire performance. Eventually, the constant flexing caused one […]

A maintenance technician working in an injection molding facility used a nylon tie to fasten a sensor cable in the vicinity of the heating barrel, and the tie completed less than one shift; by the morning, it had melted, stretching and breaking, which led to the sensor cable being laid on the hot surface. The […]