Why pull hardline through a pipe? Sounds like more trouble than
it's worth. Just directly bury it. That's what the cable company does.
I have a 100 ft run of 4 inch PVC buried and pulled all my coax and
control lines through it. It was no easy task, especially when I
added a few more cables at a later date - my pull rope tangled
within the existing cable runs, etc. I wound up pulling everything
out to get everything back in.
When I added 2 hardline runs, I didn't even consider pulling them
through the conduit. I rented a ditchwitch for half a day (their
minimum), and in less than an hour dug a 4 inch wide by 2.5 ft
deep by 100 ft long trench parallel to my conduit run. Laid the
hardlines in, pushed the dirt back in. Easy!
73,
Barry W2UP
On 3 Oct 01, teamw wrote:
>
> I suggest that you NOT use the corrugated pipe. It could cause more
> friction and snagging on cables and connectors than you would want to cope
> with. If you ever get hold of some semi-rigid CATV hardline and try to pull
> that in the pipe already occupied with other cables you would find out in a
> hurry.
> I believe that most of the water (and you would be surprised how much can
> accumulate) will be from condensation. You cannot easily prevent this so
> the best thing to do is expect it and make sure that you use only high
> quality totally waterproof jacketed cables . In most cases this only
> requires making sure that there are no abrasions on the jacket that could
> allow water to penetrate to the shielding. You can help by having drain
> holes in the bottom of the pipe if you have dry terrain but if you are like
> me the water table is virtually on the surface and I will have water filled
> pipe on a near permanent basis.
> John AB4ET
>
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