[94530] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jackson)
Wed Jan 24 20:49:10 2007
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:43:31 -0600
From: "Tim Jackson" <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070125012539.GB30646@mitch.veggiechinese.net>
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I order it from www.tecratools.com, you can also get the lacing needles and
everything else you might need:
A somewhat decent resource:
http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html
Needles and lace:
http://www.tecratools.com/pages/telecom/cable_tools.html
I have seen some Qwest and BellSouth technical documents which go into a
little more detail of how they expect it to be done, but go find someone
who's done any kind of cabling in a CO and they can teach you :)
--
Tim
On 1/24/07, William Yardley <nanog@veggiechinese.net> wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
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> [...]
> > 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.
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> The kind my vendor was able to get was flat (not the normal stuff). As
> far as I know, this stuff is usually surprisingly expensive and / or
> comes in large cases. You might just see if the people at your colo can
> give you a roll or two, or ask where they order theirs (last time I
> asked, they bought it by the case).
>
> I believe this is the stuff I have:
> http://www.edmo.com/index.php?module=products&func=display&prod_id=20352
>
> I got it from a local outfit (Danbru - http://danbru.com - great Socal
> vendor) at ~ $35/roll, which seemed exorbitant to me.
>
> w
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I order it from <a href="http://www.tecratools.com">www.tecratools.com</a>, you can also get the lacing needles and everything else you might need:<br><br>A somewhat decent resource:<br><a href="http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html">
http://www.tecratools.com/pages/tecalert/cable_lacing.html</a><br><br>Needles and lace:<br><a href="http://www.tecratools.com/pages/telecom/cable_tools.html">http://www.tecratools.com/pages/telecom/cable_tools.html</a><br>
<br>I have seen some Qwest and BellSouth technical documents which go into a little more detail of how they expect it to be done, but go find someone who's done any kind of cabling in a CO and they can teach you :)<br>
<br>--<br>Tim<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Yardley</b> <<a href="mailto:nanog@veggiechinese.net">nanog@veggiechinese.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:<br><br>[...]<br>> I came back to find all my cat5 cables neatly tied with some sort of<br>> waxed twine, using an interesting looping knot pattern that repeated
<br>> every six inches or so using a single piece of string.<br>[...]<br>> I have tried googling for the method, (it's apparently standard, I've<br>> seen it in play elsewhere), and for the type of twine, but had little
<br>> luck.<br><br>The kind my vendor was able to get was flat (not the normal stuff). As<br>far as I know, this stuff is usually surprisingly expensive and / or<br>comes in large cases. You might just see if the people at your colo can
<br>give you a roll or two, or ask where they order theirs (last time I<br>asked, they bought it by the case).<br><br>I believe this is the stuff I have:<br><a href="http://www.edmo.com/index.php?module=products&func=display&prod_id=20352">
http://www.edmo.com/index.php?module=products&func=display&prod_id=20352</a><br><br>I got it from a local outfit (Danbru - <a href="http://danbru.com">http://danbru.com</a> - great Socal<br>vendor) at ~ $35/roll, which seemed exorbitant to me.
<br><br>w<br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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