Lube, Lube, and more Lube :-)
Down is a lot easier than up.
It's absolutely critical to keep the cables very neat as they go into
the conduit. Twist them up and it's not going to work. Tape them
neatly ahead of time but DON'T let the tape go in the conduit. Have
the helper take it off right before it goes in.
One cable is the leader - make it about 4' longer than the rest, double
it back and very securely tape it into the bigger bundle. Use that loop
to pull with. This should work fine for a short run. If your going
much farther you want to use a pulling sock.
Mark
On 10/9/14, 12:48 PM, Randy Cosby via Af wrote:
I have a project that has about 50 feet of 2" metal conduit running to
the top of a water tank. There are two large-radius bends in the
conduit. We want to pull as many cat5e cables as possible. We'll
need at least 18.
I found this table and compared the size of UBNT Toughcable. It looks
to be in the same size range as the GigaLAN Cat6E cable, about .24".
Based on their table, we should be able to pull 27 cables through.
How would you pull a bundle like that? What do you use to attach the
cables together before pulling? Just electrical tape? Any other
suggestions?
There are actually two conduits, but we will need to put some coax in
the second one, but should have room for a few more ethernet cables as
well.
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