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Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.

I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they’re just guiding the cabling, not choking it.

Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful

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SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I love the stretchy rubber ties, the ones that allow you to make two bunches held together yet distinctly seperate.

Great for comms rooms, and also motorcycle cable management :-)

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Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything

Use dikes, not a knife, and cut the head of the tie, not the strap

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- untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Flush cutters specifically. And you cut the side of the head opposite the tail with the cutter flat against the face of the tail passing through the head.
  
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  - Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Can’t believe ppl just use knives, lol, I would cut all the things with a cable.
    
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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.

Exactly. Let’s use a securing mechanism that requires a razor-sharp blade, held perilously close to what you don’t want to cut, in order to undo.

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- Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  One of these are safe:
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Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah, I’m exactly the same myself.

Also (just the idea of) single use “structural” stuff like that doesn’t appeal to me at all.

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makyo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah if you never have to be the one to open it up again and pull stuff apart again then sure. But I’m sure as hell not going to cut and redo zip ties the 4-5 times a year I’m in there adding or changing out something.

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