[150949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cable markers for marine environments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Mar 8 17:14:10 2012
In-Reply-To: <00F0FAC4-394F-4493-A43F-E851440FE922@orthanc.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:13:17 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Under the circumstances...
I would tend to do a two-phase solution.
1. At both ends, above the bilge area, put the most durable printed
labels you can find.
2. Both at the ends, and intermittently under the deck, use a coded
ID number for each cable using those slip-on crimp-on types (the
cablecraft ones someone pointed to a bit upthread). You won't have
the full label in the middle, but you can look at any endpoint and get
the description and the cable's individual ID tag, and then trace the
tag numbers in the bilge.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2012-03-08, at 2:01 PM, Jim Richardson wrote:
>
>> I have had good results with printed labels covered in clear
>> heatshrink. =A0Awkward, time consuming, and generally annoying, but
>> works, and lasts.
>
> A bit more detail I should have included ...
>
> These are pleasure craft, so stuff goes under the deck whether we like it=
or not.
>
> I've been using markable heat shrink, but as Jim says, it's very time con=
suming and awkward, so I was hoping for something better. =A0I have tried a=
few of the wrap-around plastic write-on types, but the glue doesn't hold v=
ery long in the damp environment.
>
> I'm hoping to find a printable plastic wrap-around with a glue that will =
stick in the damp, as it would let me pre-print everything before the job.
>
> --lyndon
>
>
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
