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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
From: "Tim Jackson" <jackson.tim () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:43:31 -0600
I order it from www.tecratools.com, you can also get the lacing needles and everything else you might need: A somewhat decent resource: http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html Needles and lace: http://www.tecratools.com/pages/telecom/cable_tools.html I have seen some Qwest and BellSouth technical documents which go into a little more detail of how they expect it to be done, but go find someone who's done any kind of cabling in a CO and they can teach you :) -- Tim On 1/24/07, William Yardley <nanog () veggiechinese net> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: [...] > I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with some sort of > waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that repeated > every six inches or so using a single piece of string. [...] > I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've > seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little > luck. The kind my vendor was able to get was flat (not the normal stuff). As far as I know, this stuff is usually surprisingly expensive and / or comes in large cases. You might just see if the people at your colo can give you a roll or two, or ask where they order theirs (last time I asked, they bought it by the case). I believe this is the stuff I have: http://www.edmo.com/index.php?module=products&func=display&prod_id=20352 I got it from a local outfit (Danbru - http://danbru.com - great Socal vendor) at ~ $35/roll, which seemed exorbitant to me. w
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- Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Dan Mahoney, System Admin (Jan 24)
- RE: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Scott Morris (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Steve Rubin (Jan 24)
- RE: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Chris Cahill (Jan 24)
- RE: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Chris L. Morrow (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Wayne E. Bouchard (Jan 25)
- RE: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Chris Cahill (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Matthew Palmer (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine William Yardley (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Tim Jackson (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine david raistrick (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Randy Bush (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine sysadmin (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Matthew Sullivan (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Mark Foster (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Larry Beaulieu (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Jared Mauch (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Ian Mason (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Mark Foster (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Robert Boyle (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Alexander Harrowell (Jan 25)