Steve Rooke skrev: > Gaffa tape the cable to the supporting pipe with a small drip loop > into the connector.
No. The glue of Gaffa tape ages. Also, it is not very nice to the cable. Gaffa should not be used for permanent installations. For temporary installations I prefer using a strap (no the narrow plastic straps, but the wither weave-type, not sure what they are called in english) running at least one turn around the cable. Dropping cable that way helps. For longer runs the cable should be strapped to some fixed structure or a steel wire and done in such a way that the cable is not fully stretched, so that each strap-point actually takes the force of the cable downto the next strap-point. This way the cable does not get to carry heavy loads, which it is not designed for, the dielectrum does not get a firm grip around the center wire... In general Gaffa should be used conservative and only for short periods of time as removing the glue becomes an issue and even more annoying as it has dried out and hardend to the surface but lost the grip to the actual tape... which makes the grip brittle. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
