Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 06:54:47 GMT From: Mike Morris Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Looking for Inexpensive Outside Wire Message-ID: Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 461, Message 7 of 8 Lines: 37 TONY@mcgill1.bitnet (Tony Harminc) writes: > Rolf Meier wrote: > [recommendation for using garden hose as conduit] >> [story about the problems with garden hose and decision to use >> real direct burial cable next time] > What you need is wire pulling compound. It's usually gloopy yellow > stuff that comes in a giant squeeze bottle or a can. You can, of > course, use almost anything slippery, but grease etc. may damage the > insulation over time. You're speaking of Scotch "Yellow-77", sometimes referred to with other names (one of the more polite ones is "Gorilla Snot"). But please note that "almost anything slippery" may cause some serious problems. I had a very difficult time at one site where someone had used liquid dish soap as a pulling compound. We ended up having to pull the old 75-pair out with a winch on a four-wheel drive vehicle. If you need to use a pulling compound, use a real pulling compound. And by all means use a conduit large enough for the job and pull a piece of 1/8" nylon with the cable. At one job the previous contractor had pulled cotton kite string with the cable. When we went to pull a pull rope in place with the kite string we discovered it had rotted. Fortunately there was enough room in the conduit that we were able to suck a cotton ball through with a new kite string and pull the nylon rope with it (and then the new cable with a new rope). Mike Morris WA6ILQ PO Box 1130 Arcadia, CA. 91077 | All opinions must be my own since nobody pays 818-447-7052 evenings | me enough to be their mouthpiece...