FWD: Re: [TowerTalk] Pull rope twisted in conduit

[Jim Idelson]

Just may have to do this. The conduit is a straight run with sweep 45's at the 
ends. The only trouble is that there is CATV hardline in there, and that is 
hard to remove without doing damage. I may try a stiff fish tape first.

73,

Jim Idelson K1IR
email    k1ir at designet.com
web    http://www.designet.com/k1ir

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

FROM: Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net>
TO:   Jim Idelson <k1ir at designet.com>, TowerTalk Post 
<towertalk at contesting.com>
DATE: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:03:36 -0700

RE:   Re: [TowerTalk] Pull rope twisted in conduit

My vote would be to pull all the cables and ropes out, and suck a brand new 
rope through, then use that one to pull several new ones.  A shopvac on one 
end will nicely pull mason's twine or equivalent through quite a long 
distance of conduit. If you need more air drag, a wad of masking tape 
works, as does one of those foam antenna balls.

(You did limit the sum of bend angles  in the conduit to 360 degrees 
between pull boxes, right? Some of those NEC rules exist for a good reason)

At 10:51 AM 8/1/2003 -0400, Jim Idelson wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I pulled a couple of small cables through my 100 foot 3" conduit that goes 
>from
>the house to the tower. This time it was extremely difficult. I can't even 
>pull
>  the cable another inch. I'm lucky that it's just sticking out the other 
> end.
>Seems like the pull rope is twisted around some of the cables; and getting
>worse every time I pull something else through. What's the best way to deal
>with this?
>
>A. Start using cable pull lubricant and don't wory about it?
>
>B. Fish a new pull rope through the conduit? If this is the right answer,
>what's the right way to do it? This sounds like the proper thing to do, if I
>can figure out how.
>
>73!
>
>Jim Idelson K1IR
>email    k1ir at designet.com
>web    http://www.designet.com/k1ir
>
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