[TowerTalk] Pull rope twisted in conduit

[kb9yku]

for  under streets thay make a  two or 3  or 4 compartmet  pully liner for
that one pull  roop is each devided part and it cant tangel
like visquean  butt havey  and will  go in  old conduwits  just fine
and it comes in flat rolls
if thay make it in 3 in

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Playford" <w8aef at worldnet.att.net>
To: "Jim Idelson" <k1ir at designet.com>; "TowerTalk Post"
<towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Pull rope twisted in conduit


> It sounds like you have quite a few cables in that conduit already.
>
> If it were mine I would pull all the cables out and pull them back in as a
> bundle.  And depending on how full the conduit is perhaps forget about the
> pull rope.
>
> And pull-ez does help but it can be very messy.
>
> de Paul, W8AEF
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Idelson" <k1ir at designet.com>
> To: "TowerTalk Post" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:51 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Pull rope twisted in conduit
>
>
> > 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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