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 ro
How long is your conduit? Trying to glue it together with things inside may cause the glue to eat your cable coverings, or worse yet, get something pinched, which means it is stuck. You might have be
I have seen some questions about having a broken line in a conduit and how to run a new one. I worked for a short time at a vacuum cleaner place, and one great way we found to pull a line though PVC
A plastic shopping sack works great.. light and will pull fast. Gary - AB9M ________________________________ From: TowerTalk <towertalk-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Tom Osborne <w7why1@gmail.
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:36:39 -0400
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 t
I used this exact procedure and it worked well. I had 4 runs of LMR-400-DB and one of 1/2 inch heliax in 4" conduit. Kim K5TU Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 14:36, K7LXC--
I used a shop vac to pull a string through 210 feet of 4" PVC. Worked great! -- -- *Michael Murphy - KI8R* mike@ki8r.com www.ki8r.com *614-371-8265 (cell)* -- ________________________________________
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For my 165' of 3" conduit, I used a shop vac and a spinning reel. Tied the handles of a plastic Safeway shopping bag to the 8# test fish line, released the reel, and using the blower direction on the
Steve I would shy away from gluing sections of pipe while at the same time laying coax. As you said, too much chance of affecting the coax outer covering. At my last QTH, I had conduit that did not h
The problem with leaving pull ropes in the conduit for future pulls is that can make slow helical twists with the other conductors already in there. I've pulled a bundle of control and transmission l
I am not following what you are saying here. Are you saying you blow in the ghosts in the conduit before pulling in the cables? How is that different from leaving pull ropes in as usual? Or are you s
That is correct. I leave no pull lines in the conduit for future pulls. Instead, I blow a ghost thru for each new pull. This almost guarantees a straight shot thru the conduit without corkscrewing do
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 06:54:00 -0400
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 lear
Author: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2017 07:03:48 -0400
I forgot to add that I no longer bother to glue the sections of together I grease the joints with DC 4, or 5 compound so they fully seat. To make a 90, I use two sweep 45s. If you have 90s, pull it s