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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
From: david raistrick <drais () atlasta net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:40:35 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
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.
It's called "lacing" and it's been used by telephone guys for ever. Find an older guy and he can probably teach you. ;)
Try http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html as a starter.
--- david raistrick http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html drais () atlasta net http://www.expita.com/nomime.html
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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)
- Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine (fire propagation issue?) John L Lee (Jan 25)