Excellent advice on conduits, Bill. I agree with almost everything. Here are some comments: 1. Water inconduit I have read many, many posts here about drilling holes inconduit to let the water esca
Why not just a plain old plumber's snake ? It should be good for at least 20 foot sections and, it might even still be good for it's intended use after the cable job was done. Gene / W2LU ___________
I may be in the minority but... I have a 3 inch conduit run from my exit point from the house to the barn where I have a 1 in 5 out remote coax switch and coax lines running off to different antennas
I'm far from being an expert on pulling cable, but I've done a bit of it, both as a sound system installer and in the home I owned in Chicago. I have a 100 foot long 3 conduit between house and tower
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When you pull the run in, it will spin in the pipe during the pull due to being coiled up on the reels unless you unroll and straighten the entire run before the pull (which is impractical in the rea
Some speculation about the source of the twist of cables inconduit: If you pull twisted cable (e.g. 3 x 6ga + 8ga) or twisted pairs or a single stranded wire, then there is a source of (un)twist, or
If the pvc is the correct size for the amount of cable allowing for additional cables and the cable to be pulled is properly bundled that will not happen. The pullrope sits outside the bundle. This
I try really hard to either pull everything I might need and fill the conduit to reasonable capacity on the first pull, or to pull several smaller conduits so I have spare conduits :) _______________
I used this same technique pulling my coax runs through 3" electrical conduit. Also, I used a swivel rated at 200 pounds working strength where the pullrope attached to the cable bundle, to allow th
I found 3 strand (conventional twist rope) to be unsatisfactory for raising and lowering pretty much anything that needs to stay straight. Hang a wrench on the end of a hundred feet of the stuff from
If its a straight run and no bends 100' should go smoothly. Any rope will be fine, that cheap 3/8 poly trucker rope is plenty good enough. A few half hitches around the bundle and some tape to secure
In the 4th and last photo on http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/cablebox.htm you can see the pullrope I use. (This page chronicles the evolution of the routing of the cables to the tower) In som
The problem with that is the pullstring gets tangled in your cabling when you pull... It's best to blow in a new line for each new pull. 73! -Adam WJ4X _______________________________________________
MY XYL and I pulled more wires than that though an empty 250' PCV conduit using no lube and it was pretty easy. Actually the THHN wires that I use, made by Southwire, is made for pulling without lube
Think about pulling another pullropein with the wires. Then if you should ever need to add a wire there will be a pullrope available to pull the new wire through. Do that every time you pull a new
I used to glue them, but found two things. The conduit needs some sort of lube to fully seat and at least with conduit I had no problems with water or roots. The glue served that purpose, but so does
I've found that a wadded up plastic grocery bag with a few wraps and ties of the pilot string works just fine for the vacuum cleaner pull or push. No need to fish it as you glue, even for 200' plus r
Sounds like you have your work cut out for you with that long pull but it is doable if you plan ahead. First thing you need to do is suck a string into the pipe using some light pull string ,Ideal m
I've tried it both ways, and the professional way is the only way for me. Trying to thread conduit on a long run of rope and/or cables can be an exercise in frustration. The cables/ rope tend to get