[TowerTalk] Pull Rope in Conduits?

[Al Kozakiewicz]

First off, nylon will stretch.  Greenlee and other electrical mfgs. sell buckets of poly rope specifically for this purpose.

I've done several 300'+ runs using a shop vac.  Connect the shop vac to one end of the run.  Tie a plastic bag or bunch up some PE sheet and tie that to your pull string.  Shove the plastic bag into the other end of the run and it will be sucked into the shop vac.

This method has never failed to work for me.

Al
AB2ZY

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From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com [towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve Jones [n6sj at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:51 AM
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Pull Rope in Conduits?

I'm about to place a number of 150' Sched 40 PVC conduits between my shack
and new tower.   I want to end up with small 200 lb. stength nylon twine in
each conduit, then use that small twine to pull through a larger 1/4" nylon
rope for the actual cable pulls.

Should I use a fish tape to pull through the small twine as I glue on each
additional section of conduit?  I'm concerned about the PVC cement sticking
to the nylon twine.  Or is there an easy way to install the small twine
after a whole 150' run of conduit is completely glued together?

73,

Steve
N6SJ


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