[TowerTalk] Another conduit question

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

I forgot to add that I no longer bother to glue the sections of 
together  I grease the joints with DC 4, or 5 compound so they fully 
seat.  To make a 90, I use two sweep 45s.  If you have 90s, pull it 
slow, or use lots of wire pulling soap. Nylon and synthetic ropes tend 
to burn into the inside of sharp turns and/or when pulling heavy loads 
around turns.

73, Roger (K8RI)

On 9/1/2017 Friday 6:54 AM, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
> These are referred to as messenger cables.  I use just over double the 
> length of the coax so I can pull new cable in from either end. It's 
> the same for removing existing cables.  This is where you learn the 
> folly of taping those cables into a bundle <:-)
> http://www.rogerhalstead.com/ham_files/cablebox.htm 4th picture from 
> the top shows the excess coiled in the box at the house entrance.  
> This is an earlier box at the entrance.
>
> 73, Roger (K8RI)
>
>
> On 8/28/2017 Monday 2:45 PM, Steve K7AWB wrote:
>> I recently asked about Pull ropes in buried conduit. Now I wonder about:
>>
>> I can lay the abs conduit empty and either bury it early or keep 
>> uncovered in the trenches. Either way I would install Pull ropes and 
>> pull the cables through.  But wait.
>>
>> How about laying out the cables in a bundle and then slipping each 
>> ten foot abs piece over the end  of the cables and slide it up to the 
>> previous  abs piece and glue them together one at a time.  In that 
>> manner I would not have to Pull heavy  cable.   I would have to watch 
>> the abs glue as it may melt the cable coverings.
>>
>> Anyone done it these different ways and which  method is not good to 
>> use?
>>
>>   Since the trench was made of fractured sharp basalt rocks, I had 
>> the rocks removed to a different area on the property.  I will make a 
>> sand layer in the trench for the abs conduit to rest on and also 
>> cover them with sand and then complete the trench with Rock-less dirt.
>>
>>
>> Steve k7awb
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73

Roger (K8RI)


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