The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[32]: 74–75 has been cited as evidence of evolution, as the nerve’s route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish).
Are those zipties? I fucking hate zipties whenever cleaning out old installs. They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
I use velcro ties myself most of the times. If I absolutely have to use zipties, I leave then so loose that they’re just guiding the cabling, not choking it.
Just today I cleaned out one +15 years old install and oh boy, multiple zipties there. Awful
They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything
Use dikes, not a knife, and cut the head of the tie, not the strap
YES
Flush cutters specifically. And you cut the side of the head opposite the tail with the cutter flat against the face of the tail passing through the head.
Can’t believe ppl just use knives, lol, I would cut all the things with a knife.
To be fair, it’s a technique that’s not obvious to everyone. I remember when my old boss taught me at my first maintenance job
Oh, I def believe you get very proficient in such a thing very quickly, I only (re)build PC for family & friends.
I don’t imagine going in a sever room cutting zip ties like:
Ever reached your hand down into the floor to find a power plug and meet water?
This gif brought back traumas.
Y’all don’t water-cool your rigs? :D
Lol well is was airplanes not a server room. But yeah
Just staby-staby, fix it later with some alu tape.
Nah, use flush cutters and attack it from the side, or just cut the head off.
I use whatever I have with me, sometimes I have the tools with me but I’d lie if I said I always carry the toolbag around.
Yeah I do sometimes have dykes at hand but that shouldnt be necessary in professional environment.
Still hate the zipties in this context tho
They’re just about always so tight it feels uncomfortable to cut those when youre dealing with fibres or just about anything, really.
Exactly. Let’s use a securing mechanism that requires a razor-sharp blade, held perilously close to what you don’t want to cut, in order to undo.
One of these are safe-ish (not razor-sharp):
These were my goto. I miss them 🥲
But the steel stamped type that come in every electronics kit work as well.
Can confirm, I have my father’s that are prob 40 or 50 years old. Hard blue handles.
These cutters are my bread and butter. I also use them to cut my fingernails. https://www.weller-tools.com/us/en/precision-tools/weller-erem/products/cutters/776e
That handle to head ratio is far too provocative!
Sexy.
Eh, personally, i’d still find a way to screw that up.
Yeah, I’m exactly the same myself.
Also (just the idea of) single use “structural” stuff like that doesn’t appeal to me at all.
Yeah if you never have to be the one to open it up again and pull stuff apart again then sure. But I’m sure as hell not going to cut and redo zip ties the 4-5 times a year I’m in there adding or changing out something.
I love zip ties as long as they’re cut flush. There is a special place in hell for the basrards that rip my forearms open by cutting them a few mil long and at an angle.
Cable bundles like that are not flexible enough to move properly without straining the cables. You have to do concentric twists for that F1/Aerospace quality cable management.
You say such obvious things yet the pics on the link still gave me a nerdgasm.
Thx!
That website is great. Check the links at the bottom lmao. The author clearly has it out for someone.
We let the original customer, ~~~~, ride his ZX-11 RB Racing Intercooled EFI Turbo around the block and then disabled it as he was moving to Tennessee. He was amazed how “perfect” it was. We told him he could have the missing parts when he owned up to what he had done and pay for any losses we had. He was a coward and did nothing. He sold the bike to a friend of ours to avoid dealing with us, who paid us for the missing parts, getting a $17,000.00 motorcycle for $6,000.00.The bike ran 210 mph on it’s first pass at Maxton. The seller, ~~~~, was there to see “his Bike”. Last seen after collecting a large insurance settlement for being run over by a double dump truck/trailer in California, ~~~~ was chroming parts for pinball machines in Gallatin, TN…Does he have a chrome shop…no he doesn’t. We were happy to hear later on that he lost his left leg in another motorcycle accident…and were glad it was his left shifter leg. Acting as a middleman for chroming is safer than motorcycles for him. He used to laugh about how he was charging people $400.00 to ground one wire in a GPZ750 turbo ecm. Cosmic pinball got him. Karma. In the finality of this “what goes around comes around” ~~~~ hit a turkey vulture on a motorcycle in 2016 and was killed. We hope the turkey vulture survived.
Incredible levels of vitriol. I need to keep practicing
These CAN-BUS Joysticks are really hot
I would twist both of them sticks of joy at the same time, maybe later put these on:
Then you look up and unplug everything.
Witch is not completely unlike how the wires in the neck work.
God wiring his new creation: … oh yeah I need a cable for the heart … oh yeah, I need a cable to power the lungs … oh yeah, almost forgot, need a cable for the liver … oh yeah, need a cable to control the legs … oh yeah, need some sensor lines for the hands … oh crap, wired the genital sensor lines wrong … oh shit, no more room for the lines for the kidneys, maybe if I wire it this way … shit, need more power lines for the stomach … crap, need more sensor lines here … shit, shit, shit, I need more power lines
shit, forgot to install a valve in the heart … and ofc I now have to take it all out just to get to the heart, right when I got the wiring all nice & neat, ffs
… ah fuck it … I’ll just cover over everything with shrink wrap … no one’s going to see this mess any way … yeah, just cover the entire thing with shrink wrap
who needs a transparent side anyways
Cable comb and a vertebrae are literally the same thing. Prove me wrong.
Just need to jam all the cables in there!
Nah man that’s all good copper wire in there rip it out and sell it
there is no copper in these organic veins
That is exactly what a copper vein would say!
Please. Tell Me those aren’t zip ties though!
They show up in the worst places. Top offenders are inside A/C units and car engines. Yanno, where there’s lots of vibration to help the little bastards cut through insulation.
Huh… Cutting insulation is a new one for me. I’ve seen it with adel clamps that chewed through their grommet but never nylon.
Were they in areas where the wires needed to be allowed too mice but were too constricted?
I had a domestic A/C unit fail this way. Zip ties kept the power leads to the compressor taught against the bottom leg of the compressor housing (cast iron or some kind of steel). The edge of the zip tie, combined with vibration and moisture abraded the insulation over the period of about 3 years and grounded out against the housing. This destroyed the compressor motor windings (melted to a dead-short under power), leading to a pricey repair.
Technician knew what to look for since he saw the exact same failure mode on that make of A/C unit in a commercial model on a rooftop.
Damn! Yeah with the vibration and start torque that makes sense. Sounds like it didn’t have strain relief? I imagine if the wire is cheaped out on at all by the manufacturer it could be more prone as well.
Zip ties so tight you know the person installing them pulled each one until all of their neck veins bulged out.
Going through a DC consolidation project now and the line techs are fucking clean. I’m slightly excited to overnight patch so I can make this place look good.
I can finally make this mess I walked into look good.
I’m currently wiring up a 32U power distribution and test rack with about 1000 discrete wire connections, so I am feeling this to my core.
Zip-tie the tip ties together! :)
I think I had that CD back in 2008
Tommy John and Ulnar Nerve transit surgeries are what give me hope for our future cyborg selves
