From:
Fred Hopengarten K1VR 617/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address: fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
On Mon, 15 Sep 1997 02:06:58 -0700 Ed Sleight <k4sb@worldnet.att.net>
writes:
>2. Whenever you add a cable, just tape another length of pull rope to
>the cable, pull on the one already in place, and when you're through,
>you have a new pull rope in place.
K1VR: Ed is, of course right -- for most of the world. Sadly, this
solution doesn't work at my house where the other rope has been borrowed
by a neighbor for a project and isn't around on the day I need it, or the
other rope has been cut into small pieces for a kids project, or the
other rope was put into duty and is presently on the tower with two other
guys while we two are trying to pull a cable, and so forth. That's why
I prefer a double length dedicated to the pull use. Pull rope or pull
wire is cheap, what's really "expensive" is to discover that you've got
to make a Home Depot run while three guys stand around and wait. I long
for a world in which I don't have to scheme so that spares are always on
hand. -- Fred
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