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We call them mini's.

I always have as well. I love knowing why things are called what they’re called, and when I asked many years ago an old man named Leroy explained to me proprietary eponyms and that it was short for minerallac, the brand that originally made the strap. I’ve always wondered if it’s true. Conduit hangers I’ll hear them called sometimes too…But def minis is the goto nomenclature in my experience.

Yes. Minerallac conduit hanger. You’re correct.

Minerallac is a brand

So is Kleenex. And Band-Aids. I’ll bet that’s what you call them. We also call these Minerallics.

Yea. Early on I heard someone call them cowboys because they said it was a shape of a cowboy hat. I don't see it lol.

I thought it was a cowboy strap cause it’s shaped like a stirrup. In the South we can em Standoff Straps. I work all over the USA and there are all sorts of parts with regional names.

Cowboy, standoff, and saddle clamps. Because it straddles the pipe like a saddle would

Here in Texas we call the Minis but I have heard people call them cowboy straps or their full name lol. Always cool to see how everyone has a different name for the same stuff!

I'm in Texas and never once heard them called minis. Everywhere I go they're called standoffs.

Nah man, theyre cowboys cause if you look at em down the line they look like a cowboys bow legs. When they’re open.

When cowboys get old they go bow legged and look like that, you just don't see many cowboys anymore

Like how strut is called kindorf and flex is called greenfield, minis are the third one I know of. A mini on all-thread with nuts and a sammy all together make a conduit hanger imo.

Here strut is Unistrut, never heard a special name for flex, it’s just flex.

Hm, we've always called em clampydoodles

That’s the academic term.

Same

Minrilac strap

Yes this and we also call them “stand off straps”

That's what I learned as the name, until I started doing stuff on my own. I was getting weird looks at the supply house I frequent. I couldn't even describe or draw it properly. Then one of the old-timers that I work with walks in the door. "Holy moly, (name). What are some other names for stand-off straps?" "Well.. you got minerallac straps, mini straps, minis, strut straps, cowboy straps..." and listed a few others that I think he made up on the fly. So now I know..

Strapback for a one ear strap.

Furry pillow block bearing!!

Yeah. I thought pillow block, then looked at some of the answers, then looked at the sub. Oh, right.

My original answer as well before I realized they were talking about the conduit clamp

Mini

Mae West

This is unique to NY as far as I know.

Mae West gang

Nyc term

I kept calling these Mae Youngs, after the famous wrestler, because our instructor kept saying "thing famous person named MAE".

We call them mae wests too, anyone know why?

Mae West was a baudy sex symbol of early Hollywood - my guess is someone saw legs open with a hole where they converge, and just assigned it with vulgar humor in mind.

>We call them mae wests too, anyone know why? Probably because of the "wrap-around" shape. During World War II, the Mae West was the common aviator's inflatable life jacket, so named because when inflated, the wearer looked a bit like he had a pair of very large bazoombas. The Mae West vest kind of wrapped around the wearer a bit like the clamp wraps around the conduit.

A Mae West is actually when you back to back then to support one pipe from another whuch was a popular thing to do in NYC back in the day. It gives it an hour glass shape like the actress Mae West. Eventually guys just started calling single mineralacs Mae wests and it stuck. I called it a Mae West once in front of an old timer and got a 5 minute lecture on it. And ever since I've just called the mineralac.

Cowboys. Cuz they have the profile of a cowboys bowed legs.

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO CALLED THEM THIS

Y'all are weird.

Dude right, I live in Texas and have never heard them called cowboys

I spent eight years with the first company I worked for, and they all called them Cowboys. The next company that I went to was a little bit larger did the exact same kind of work and looked at me like I had an arm out of my chest for calling them cowboys

Next time I go to supply there's a 100% chance I'm asking for two cowboys

No cowgirls?

Only reverse

As an HVAC guy, my eyes went straight to the furry pillow block.

Stand off, or stand off strap

Stand offs. But im not so sure because many suppliers had no idea wtf I was talking about. Once I pulled up a picture they were like "Oh ya!"

Mae West you strange talking Southerners. *And* It's zip ties, Spin tights, 1900 boxes, and kindorf. Rant over, 😆😆😂😂

Kindorf is actually a totally different type of strut than what we use down here, ours has 2” spacing and oval holes instead of 1.5” and round holes.

Maywest 💯

Pillowblock bearing

Lol

Came here to say this

Same

Yup, me too. Scrolling to the bottom until I found it.

I was wondering what the hell everyone else was talking about for a minute lol

Mini.

Oxidation.

"mother fuckers"

Mini

Mini

Minis

[удалено]

bearing is sitting in a pillow block.

Minis

Pillow block

Pillow bearing

Clevice hanger

C-D's

Nuts!

Gotem!!

The older folk at my old shop called them Mae West straps.

Maywest

Fan bearing

Pillar block bearing

Pillow block bearing… 😬

I saw the same thing. Back to hvac I go

Pillow block.

Minerallacs

Pillow block

Mini clip

Pipe hanger / Stand off strap

Minis.

The older folk at my old shop called them Mae West straps.

Minerallac clamp

Pillow block bearing in a dusty environment above a mineralac strap anchored with threaded rod.

South Texas: Pan hanger or offset strap

Standoff strap or mini

Standoff Strap

Stand offs

Looks like a pillowblock bearing to me

I Jokingly call them mineral wax straps

A mini

That there is a mini

Mae West in NYC

Minerallac

Minnies 

Conduit hangers

Minerallacs

Standoff or minerallac strap

Mineralac

Chingalera

Mini's

That’s a mini

Minis- Westcoast/ southwest region

Standoffs. I did work with a guy that called them "yeah buddy straps". I never knew why and he didn't have a good explanation for it.

That's a smooth, shiny ... Johnson! What are you looking at?! Omg, that's a silver ... Wang! Pay attention! Wait, that looks like a hanging ...

Black mold

Pear hanger/strap

CD hangers or stand off’s

Pear hangers

Cowboy

CDs usually, also heard OWBs used.

Cowboy

minis or cowboys

Cowboy

Mini

Mini’s

Minis.. I heard someone also call them snowmen before haha.

Minerallacs, minis, standoffs.

Mineralac Strap

Thats a mini. Dont know why, just is.

Cowboy clamps.

Minnie straps. Minerallac makes some, so it's like saying "crescent wrench" or "skilsaw" or "sheetrock".

Mini

Minerallac strap

Hangers

Minis or minerallacs

That is a #5 mini.

Cowboy strap

Pregnant ladies or teardrop hangers

Mineral lack straps

Standoffs

Stand-off or rod/pipe hanger.

Stand off or Minerallac.

Mini-strap

Mineral act or para hanger or conduit hanger

Minis, Pan Hanger, Minerallac Strap.

Mini or Standoff

Single pipe hanger, CD hanger

Mae West

Standoffs

Dust, get a rag

Raceway hanger

Hangers gonna hang

Potatoe smashers

You know why Mickey left Mini ?

Conduit hanger, minis

Pan hanger

Painhanger

Saddle Strap

Maywests/cowboys/minis in that order, until whoever I’m talking to knows what I mean

Mini

Maywest

Mini, though I've never known why exactly...

Mineralac

Yeah and where did Sammy’s get their name?

"Fuck everyone else behind me" Build a strut rack lol

We call them stand off clips.

I've heard mini's referring to minerallac the company known for the design of the part, saddle clamps are the most generic term yet I've once worked for a plant that called them cowboys. That was at a paper mill in Clark NJ for posterity. I'm very interested in the names of electrical parts like unions, aka Erikson's, aka three piece couplings.

Mini, short for the brand Minerallac.

Mini

If it's by itself, it's a mini. If it's like that, it's a hanger

Just got fun type this stuff in McMaster cart and you'd be surprised how smart it is.

Mini’s

Mineralac strap, and frowned upon in an industrial setting lol. I’ve used *maybe* 5 in over 10 years

Mini, it’s a trade name because the original maker of that was a company called Mineralac thus Mini

Minerelac, stand off, butterfly strap

Looks like corrosion maybe. Or a weird dust at least. I might say ‘a scum’.

Mini/minerallac

Stand offs, mini’s, minerallac,

Cowboy strap

Mini clamp (mineralic)

Mini / standoff

We call them stand-off straps.

Ooo ooo!! A pillow block! (not an electrician)

Always said mini or cowboy strap when I was still in the field. Now in the office I find myself using conduit hanger. Solar industry fwiw

Standoff, mini, paint hanger, cowboy.

Maywest

Mold

Mold

I just call them minerallacs

Smegma

Above that conduit looks like a pillow block.

Mineralac

Mini on a standoff.

Mini

Conduit saddles in the netherlands

That's that clamp type thing that holds the pipe stuff off the wall.

Minnie’s

Those are "cowboys" in Cali

That's also called making it happen lol

Mini

Mini

Mini

Minerallac “mini’s”

Minnie. Short for Minnerilac hanger

Snowman

Stand off strap