[94529] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Wed Jan 24 20:41:40 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:40:35 -0500 (EST)
From: david raistrick <drais@atlasta.net>
To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070124192357.I51695@prime.gushi.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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.
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