[94526] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Rubin)
Wed Jan 24 20:05:51 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:49:43 -0800
From: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070124192357.I51695@prime.gushi.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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" Mahoney
>
>
Best site I have seen so far:
http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/
