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LPT: If you have a lot of loose zip ties, well cut the head off of one and zip the rest onto that!
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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I bought a bag of 1000 zipties once.
Once.
I bought ~190m of DC wire once.
Jesu
That's a lot
What for?
I asked for 5m for a science project. A coil of 190m was the minimum they sold.
It wasn't too expensive (not copper), so I went with it.
That's actually hilarious. What did you do with the leftover??
I still keep it in a cardboard box full of other electronics related stuff, which includes my shitty soldering iron (which is shitty enough to have made me thought that I was bad at soldering, until I once put my hands on a Weller) and other pieces of out of dysfunctional electronics that I have hoarded, thinking that I might do something with them, someday.
I gave this as a reply to your comment because it is in the same spirit.
The iron and the wire are the most used components out of that box.
Well you're not going to run out of wire for a while. lol
Were they multicolored?
Nope--black and a single size.
Ok.
I needed colors to tag otherwise unlabeled wire harnesses..
Colors is a good way to do it! I've only had to label wire harnesses a couple times and i used sharpie tick marks on the wires themselves. It worked but was awkward and took time to find the one wire i needed.