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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
From: Matthew Sullivan <matthew () sorbs net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:37:13 +1100
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Upon leaving a router at telx and asking one of their techs to plug in the equipment for me, 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. For some reason, I found this trick really cool.As others have already indicated (and with some good links) it's cable lacing.
For how to's .. find anyone that has done a recognised apprenticeship in electrical, telecommunications, RF, or "multiskill" (electical/electromechanical/mechanical) and ask them to teach you (in this day and age of training courses, that probably means finding someone over the age of 35). Also you could ask your friendly local full license, old school radio ham etc etc... It's a dying skill, not because it isn't good, but because it takes training/practice and time. Tiewraps (Zip ties) are cheap, quick and require little (if any) training.
Regards, Mat
Current thread:
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine, (continued)
- 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 Steve Rubin (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Robert Boyle (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Alexander Harrowell (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine (fire propagation issue?) John L Lee (Jan 25)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Richard Naylor (Jan 24)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine Brandon Butterworth (Jan 25)