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Re: [TowerTalk] Coiling cables

To: Gene Smar <ersmar@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coiling cables
From: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:01:55 -0700
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or the "figure 8 flake", very useful when the "cable" is too heavy to hold, such as the bundle of cables when lowering a crank up, 200' of garden hose, or a 1" mooring line. There is no twist put in the cable. Saw this also used by a fiber-optic underground pull team. They unspooled way more than a thousand feet and figure 8 flaked it, 30' long, I guess so they could control the tension by hand instead of pulling from the 5' diameter reel. Light cables can be 8 flaked by holding one loop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpmpni75K48

Grant KZ1W


On 8/12/2013 8:23 PM, Gene Smar wrote:
TT:

From one of the members of our local Ham Radio club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEd7ru24Vx0 . Interesting technique to wind coils of small cable (which are often found run up inside towers.)


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F
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