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Take 2 brass rings. Zip them together with the best, most costly zip tie on planet earth. Pull the rings, seems pretty strong, huh? Now twist the rings while pulling. Whoops! There go's an essential piece of dive equipment. Why did it break? Zips are simply not designed to take torsional stress of any kind. Military/aerospace, huh? Aren't those the guys with the $800 toilet seats? Wonder how much zip ties would cost... Sorry, Kevin, simple old cave line wins again. Jim On 6/25/98 5:23 PM Scaleworks@ao*.co* wrote: >I believe the term "zip ties" is thrown around a bit to much to encompass all >zip ties on the market. Many ties are manufactured to far more demanding >specs >i.e. military and aerospace, than general application pieces found at home >depot, molded off some worn out generic mold in China. >Try TRW Fasteners Division for some quality zip ties, I am sure that they >will >stand up to appropriate applications in SCUBA. > >Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix At http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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