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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: flatcat on June 11, 2010, 08:21:55

Title: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: flatcat on June 11, 2010, 08:21:55
Hello Playmofriends :wave:

Here is a pic of the blue ties which often come in Playmobil sets to hold bundled parts together:

(http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/6196/200910220003.jpg) (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/200910220003.jpg/)

Because they are so strong, and easy to put together and part they are very usefull!


Cable tie:

(http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3584/200910220004.jpg) (http://img13.imageshack.us/i/200910220004.jpg/)


Plant tie:

(http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/2544/200910220005.jpg) (http://img12.imageshack.us/i/200910220005.jpg/)


IMO, from what I know of they are better than anything currently on the market for surving these purposes, but unfortunately they don't have part numbers otherwise I would order a load from DS :(

Does anyone else have any great uses for them?

Damo :)
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Wolf Knight on June 11, 2010, 09:44:31
A very usefull and resourcefully tip Damo!!! Thank you!!! If i come across any i'll give them to my mother for her plants!!!
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: playmofire on June 11, 2010, 11:05:01
I've never seen these before and thye seem especially useful.  Any particular sets they come with, Damo?
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: flatcat on June 11, 2010, 11:18:50
Any particular sets they come with, Damo?

Mine came from sets 4823 and 4471 - they were used to bundle the frameworks of the boats together. It could well be that they only came in these sets but I am uncertain :-\
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Indianna on June 11, 2010, 16:29:16
I like the look of those - they do seem to have a lot of potential uses.  I usually save all the pits and pieces (even the sprues in case a little piece of a particular color plastic might be needed later  8} ) but I don't remember seeing them before - maybe they are new.  I will be on the lookout for them.   :)
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Klickus Mobilius on June 12, 2010, 06:57:21
That's a great idea!  It's good to reuse things!
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Gepetto on June 12, 2010, 12:20:26
I have never seen those before (but I don't get out much).  ???
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: skypurr on June 12, 2010, 14:39:29
I haven't seen these before either, but i don't manage to get many new sets,  :' (most of mine are someone else's cast offs from ebay! :love:

Elaine
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Justindo on June 12, 2010, 16:32:41
Those look very useful, but I've never seen them before.
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: baden-wurttemberg on June 12, 2010, 17:53:46
Thanks Damo for the tip! That's a pretty good idea for the blue ties. From now on I'm going to give them to my mom for her garden. Thanks for sharing.




Baden  :wave:
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Bill Blackhurst on June 12, 2010, 22:31:03
I received them in different colors in sets & add on sets containing the old oak trees that held the different sized branches together by group.
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Coyote on June 13, 2010, 01:11:51
Hee!  I should see if I have any of those around- there's a plant in my office at work that's threatening to take over the entire room...
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: Giorginetto on June 14, 2010, 08:15:31
a good tip !!!! ;)
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: skypurr on June 26, 2010, 09:23:14
I haven't seen these before either, but i don't manage to get many new sets,  :' (most of mine are someone else's cast offs from ebay! :love:

Having said I'd never seen them before, I've just been sorting out some of the Playmobil I've been collecting lately and found a new oak tree that I'd got had them joining the different sized branches together   :-[ :-[ :-[
I now have blue, red and yellow ones! ... I'm just off to tie up my tomato plants! ;D
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: flatcat on June 26, 2010, 09:25:09
Having said I'd never seen them before, I've just been sorting out some of the Playmobil I've been collecting lately and found a new oak tree that I'd got had them joining the different sized branches together   :-[ :-[ :-[
I now have blue, red and yellow ones! ... I'm just off to tie up my tomato plants! ;D

Wow! different coloured ones! :D

They are great for tomato plants - the plant in my pic is a chocolate tomato plant that we are growing :love:
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: skypurr on June 26, 2010, 09:44:54
They are great for tomato plants - the plant in my pic is a chocolate tomato plant that we are growing :love:

Chocolate tomatoes   :(o): :(o): :(o):  :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
two of my favourite things together - I grow chocolate mint in my herb garden but I've never heard of chocolate tomatoes  :-[

Elaine
Title: Re: Don't throw your blue ties away - they're useful!!!
Post by: flatcat on June 26, 2010, 09:50:00
Chocolate tomatoes   :(o): :(o): :(o):  :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love:
two of my favourite things together - I grow chocolate mint in my herb garden but I've never heard of chocolate tomatoes  :-[

Elaine

They're not actually real chocolate, but the tomatoes are brown, with a chocolate flavour. They are a new variety that we are trialling for a seed company :)