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Re: Cable-Tying with Waxed Twine

  • From: david raistrick
  • Date: Wed Jan 24 20:43:07 2007


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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