Couple of afterthoughts (after reading all the other posts): 1. I believe the rule of thumb is that the conduit should be at least twice the diameter of the cable bundle. 2. A lot of people have repo
Dick On my 3" conduits, I used a spinning reel at one end, with the 6# test fishing line tied onto a Safeway plastic shopping bag. Duct taped the hose from the shop vac to the other end of the condui
Hi Dick, I would second all of Jim's answers. A few extra points: 1. You can get a 3" foam mouse at your local electrical supply store (the one local contractors use). Home Depot might have them, too
Yes, the footage marks on muletape are an added benefit. At the *pull* end of the conduit I usually rig up a strategically placed pulley in line with the conduit to avoid pulling over the sharp edge.
Good advice. I'd add: put a chafe collar on the ends of all conduit, a standard pvc conduit part (also code on 3/4 and larger IIRC). The sharp end edge of a conduit can slice thru cable insulation. A
Dick I recently pulled 13 cables through two 3" conduits, each 165' long. 5 coaxial cables in one conduit, and the other had 4 multipair rotor and control cables and four CAT5e cables. They were stra
I have always used #14 solid wire for a pullrope and once it was pulled though I repurposed the wire for temporary Beverage antennas. I had never heard of Muletape until this post. It definitely loo
Depends on what you're pulling, how big the conduit is, how many bends, etc. In worse case scenarios I avoid knots of any kind in the pull line. I stagger the cables being pulled and simply tape each
Jon, I had never heard of Muletape and Googled it, and discovered the Detectible version with embedded wire. I have built <100W antennas with the cattle control version in 1/2" size. It has fine stai
Not sure how much power it could handle, I would also twist it so it doesn't flap around in the wind as much. _______________________________________________ _________________________________________
Has anyone ever used the Muletape Quad Detectible as antenna wire? Has 4 22 ga tinned copper insulated wires embedded, so much like electric control fencing but insulated. 4 parallel wires in a 1/2 t
Muletape is the only thing to use. It's flat & slippery, does not tend to twist, and won't burn thru your PVC corners. And cheap. And strong. -Steve K8LX On 8/28/2017 1:03 PM, Steve K7AWB wrote: I am
I am going to bury some heliax and coax cables inconduit and I'd like some advice on Pull ropes. I think I'll use two of them so that in the future I have redundancy since once these are buried for
This is great advice, Grant! I'm going to make a trip to the local electrical supplier anyway for goop and I'll get some tape as well. Your suggestion of using THHN rather than Romex is a good one. I
Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX via TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:34:56 -0400
Just as a point of information, stainless steel has a significantly higher resistivity vs copper: roughly 43 times as much. I one time lived in a garden apartment and put up a stealth random wire. I
Hi Dick!!! Pulled telephone cable for many years in all types of conduit. Go to this site http://www.polywater.com/, I found this to be the best lube, and when it drys out there is nothing left of it
I have one of these http://www.acmetools.com/shop/tools/greenlee-6500-foot-poly-pull-line-430?cm_mmc=Bing-_-PRODUCTFEED-_-GREENLEE-_-430G1&CAWELAID=600009240000044735&CATARGETID=600009240005406776&CA
Hi Dick, What I've learned - Measure the conduit first, I've been surprised by actual pull lengths different than what looked right on paper. I use conduit measuring tape, about 1/4" wide and flat. I
When you start the pull if your cables start to spin then you should stop and pull the cables out and its a very easy process to stop it, we called it slapping the cable. This straightens out the cab