Cross-posted with Anton's ziptastrophe story. Still, not a catastrophic failure of the full zip tie system.
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 4:03:05 PM UTC-4, Mark in Beacon wrote: > > So far I am aware of zero accidents caused by catastrophic zip-tie > failures. Any anecdotal evidence out there on RBW? Whereas there is > evidence of a carbon fork or two breaking bad. For zips to work as an > attachment device for something like a basket to a rack, you need a minimum > of four attachment points, and more is better (which I believe Riv > advocates). As Bill points out, the chances of them all letting go at once > are slim. They are plastic and do have what some might consider an element > of cheese to them, no doubt. You're either good with that, or not. But I > don't think you can really make a safety argument against zip ties applied > with even minimal intelligence--even ones that, unlike the fencing zips I > sometimes use, are not labeled UV resistant. > > On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 2:36:59 PM UTC-4, Will wrote: >> >> If a steel fork is necessary, well... so is a bullet proof basket >> connection. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
