TwistTail - Product Catalogue - 2015 - Fastening solutions

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TwistTail - Product Catalogue - 2015 - Fastening solutions

Published: 17 July 2015 · Category: Product Catalogues & Brochures

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Fastening solutions Easily bundle, secure and manage your cables Introduction Fastening solutions, how it all started 11 First developed to solve the problem of bundling the hundreds For the cable tie, the proverbial light bulb came on over Logan’s of feet of wiring found inside commercial aircraft, Ty-Rap cable head while touring a Boeing aircraft manufacturing facility in ties can now be found virtually everywhere - from Nascar racing 1956. Aircraft wiring was a cumbersome and detailed underta- engines to backyard tool sheds. Self-fastening and basically king, involving thousands of feet of wire organized on sheets of indestructible, the ground-breaking design of the Ty-Rap® cable 50-foot long plywood and held in place with knotted, waxcoated, tie demonstrates how to solve a complex problem with a simple braided nylon cord. Each knot had to be pulled tight by wrapping technology. the cord around one’s finger which sometimes cut the operator’s ® fingers until they developed thick calluses or «hamburger hands.» “My dad didn’t have a lot of formal education, but he was the Logan was convinced there had to be an easier, more forgiving, most ingenious person I have ever met,» said Robert Logan, way to accomplish this critical task. For the next couple of years, Maurus’ son. «He never thought the customary way of doing Logan experimented with various tools and materials. On June things was good enough and when he looked at anything he 24, 1958, a patent for the longlasting,...