Re-attach a button to your pants in your server room with CAT6 UTP

Don't you just hate it when you're minding your own business, trying to go to the bathroom when your pants button decides to make a break for it? I still haven't figured out why no clothing company has figured out a way to affix buttons to the pants permanently. It's really a pain.

Well if you work in IT and you need a quick fix, look no further than that giant spool of CAT6 UTP laying in the corner of the server room!

(as is customary....sorry for the crappy pictures but they were taken on my phone while standing in my server room trying to fiddle my button back on to my pants....i'm so glad that i've got a lock on the door and no windows haha)

Step 1 Supplies

Obviously you'll need some newly buttonless pants
A button (hopefully THE button)
Some CAT6 UTP (or any solid core wire of a small guage)
Some pliers (or a way to cut your wire)
A paperclip

Comments

[playfulplans]

Nicely done.

And the answer for why the buttons are always popping off is that millions of buttonless pairs of pants get thrown into dark corners of closets, enriching clothing manufacturers because most of us are too stoopid to figure out a quick fix like this one.

[tiuk]

Reminds me of the time I got to work and realized I had forgotten to put on a belt. I spent the rest of the day with a tied piece of cat5 around my waist.

[ilpug]

i did that with a charger extension cable once in an Airsoft game... then i wandered around for like ten minutes going "where the hell is my charger cord"


nice instructable. down and dirty. a great way to use the cable i have lying around

[Culturedropout]

"Have you seen Bob recently?"
"Uhh... Last I saw him, he was in the server room with his pants around his ankles...."
"?!?"

hehe

[mattronix]

networking your self

[ll.13]

mmm, crappy pic'alicious. =D

-Great instructable for the emergency!

[crapflinger]

the worst part is that my camera on my phone is actually pretty decent....just hard to get the pics right hehe

[ll.13]

My guess is that camera phones are seriously lacking a Macro function. =)

[crapflinger]

no doubt hehe....