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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Another conduit question
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 06:54:00 -0400
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These are referred to as messenger cables. I use just over double the length of the coax so I can pull new cable in from either end. It's the same for removing existing cables. This is where you learn the folly of taping those cables into a bundle <:-) http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/cablebox.htm 4th picture from the top shows the excess coiled in the box at the house entrance. This is an earlier box at the entrance.

73, Roger (K8RI)


On 8/28/2017 Monday 2:45 PM, Steve K7AWB wrote:
I recently asked about Pull ropes in buried conduit. Now I wonder about:

I can lay the abs conduit empty and either bury it early or keep uncovered in 
the trenches. Either way I would install Pull ropes and pull the cables 
through.  But wait.

How about laying out the cables in a bundle and then slipping each ten foot abs 
piece over the end  of the cables and slide it up to the previous  abs piece 
and glue them together one at a time.  In that manner I would not have to Pull 
heavy  cable.   I would have to watch the abs glue as it may melt the cable 
coverings.

Anyone done it these different ways and which  method is not good to use?

  Since the trench was made of fractured sharp basalt rocks, I had the rocks 
removed to a different area on the property.  I will make a sand layer in the 
trench for the abs conduit to rest on and also cover them with sand and then 
complete the trench with Rock-less dirt.


Steve k7awb
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