On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:17:26 -0600, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:05:45 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

Doesn't anyone make cable clips that can be screwed down?

I need to route cabling under a cabinet made of particle board. The
stick-on clips hold only a few days, then let go :-(

...Jim Thompson

There's screw-down cable ties that work very well -- one of my clients
uses them in a system that has to fly on helicopters, and that goes
beyond a high vibration environment*. Find a big enough supplier of
cable ties (i.e. Fry's) and you'll find some screw-down ones.

* There's a popular misconception that helicopters fly by aerodynamic
forces on the rotor blades, leading to their moniker as 'rotary wing
vehicle'. This is not correct. Helicopters fly by vibrating so hard
that portions of their airframes reach relativistic velocities, thereby
creating an anti-gravity effect that causes them to be repelled from the
surface of the earth. The blades are there to generate this vibration,
and to help control the resulting motion. Anyone who has to make
mechanical systems that hold together on a helicopter knows this to be
true...

Sno-o-o-ort!

Some years ago I designed a high-voltage logic and control system for
MicroRel for a helicopter gunnery application... can't remember the
helicopter type name now, but it was McDonnell Douglas... 30V logic
for good noise immunity ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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