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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
From: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web () typo org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:48:19 -0700
Oh, just a small note on this topic... Lacing (or even zip tying) doesn't really help a great deal for tracability and whatnot unless you at least do a rough job of combing out cables. In fact, failing to do so when you're tying cables down can kink cables and actually lead to failures since many people haev a tendancy to overtighten laces. On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:49:43PM -0800, Steve Rubin wrote:
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:Hey all, This seems a wee bit off topic, but definitely relates to network operations (somewhere below layer 1) and I can't think of a better place to ask. 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. 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. I was wondering if any of the gurus out there would care to share what this knot-pattern is actually called, and/or if there's a (illustrated) howto somewhere? -Dan "Tired of getting scratched up by jagged cable ties" MahoneyBest site I have seen so far: http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/
--- Wayne Bouchard web () typo org Network Dude http://www.typo.org/~web/
Current thread:
- 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 Mark Foster (Jan 24)