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 :-(

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...

Hmmm - I once caught a lift from an air base in Korea to some army post
(going up to skydive), and it was quite smooth. Colder than a witch's tit
however; the pilot had taken the doors off. =:-O

Cheers!
Rich