[TowerTalk] Another conduit question

[Michael Murphy]

I used a shop vac to pull a string through 210 feet of 4" PVC.  Worked
great!

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Tom Osborne <w7why1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have seen some questions about having a broken line in a conduit and how
> to run a new one.
>
> I worked for a short time at a vacuum cleaner place, and one great way we
> found to pull a line though PVC pipe was to tie a rag on the end of the
> line and insert it into the end of the pipel  Then go to the far end and
> put a hefty vacuum cleaner on the pipe and suck the line with the rag tied
> to the end through the pipe.  Then you can tie that line to a bigger pull
> line and pull it through.  Works pretty slick.
>
> If the run is too long, though, it won't work as there won't be enough
> volume of air going through the pipe.  73
> Tom W7WHY
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