Not long ago I was finishing off rewiring a kit car.
It is a DRK. Not this one but one very similar.
The job started when the original Renault 4 wiring loom melted following a fault in the headlight.
Not all circuits in the original car have fuses - thank you Mr Renault.
Days of work added fuses to every circuit, removed metres of spare wire and other junk from the loom, and allowed the owner to rearrange the dash - dumping the awful original instrument cluster in the process.
Upside down under the dashboard it was the usual delightful battle with bits of wire, crimping tools, pliers, and other odds and sods.
Anyway, I was rather pleased with the result - particularly as everything worked first go.
But what was even better, was the last few minutes putting a handful of cable ties onto the bunches of wire behind the dash - converting what look like a mess into an ordered assembly.
Not that anyone else is going to see it, but it was important to me.
Loom tape would have looked nicer, but is a nightmare to apply to built-in-situ looms, and renders maintenance close to impossible.
So well done Thomas & Betts for inventing cable ties, they made a kit car very tidy, and will always have a place in my tool box.
'Alice'
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Comments (3)
It's just a pity they get used for tying those silly advertisements to lamp posts along with pictures of people celebrating their 30th, 40th, 50th whatever, birthdays that friends and relatives think is such a jolly wheeze to do.
Of course they have now taken over Furse, the lightning protection equipment company!
Did you know they were invented as recently as 1958?
Posted by Auntie G | May 1, 2008 11:22 AM
Posted on May 1, 2008 11:22
I agree about cable ties being left all over the place Auntie G.
There is a certain unpleasant arrogance about those who put up adverts, then never clear them away.
I am also not a fan of roadside shrines.
It is obviously sad when someone dies in a car crash, but why do the bereaved sometimes think they have the right to erect some monstrosity on the site for ever more.
'Alice'
Posted by 'Alice' | May 1, 2008 11:41 AM
Posted on May 1, 2008 11:41
Our lamp posts in Woking are infested with a vine like tangle of left over multiple cable ties.
I agree with your point 'Alice' about road side shrines, there are some in my neck of the woods that have even had small engraved head stones placed on the site of the accident.....yikes!
Posted by Auntie G | May 1, 2008 2:54 PM
Posted on May 1, 2008 14:54