Re: Support for vertical Cat5 Cable runs

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cheers Chris!

/me blushes

I was also thinking of rainwater guttering, or chopped-up downpipe to
control the bend radius too :-)
The cable basket stuff is quite good as you can form gentle
"bends"
rather than corners.

Tim.


On 3/17/08, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > spiral cable wrapping ...
>
> Tim's idea strikes me as a stroke of genius ... spiral wrap a good
> bundle of cables, making it fairly tight, but not too tight, and pin
> the wrap to a beam at the top ... gentle on the cables, and no
> worries about radii on the turns to the horizontal at the ends of the
> drop ... those radii being the big concern in a situation like this,
> I imagine ... another idea might be to wrap the cables around a
> pulley at each end of the drop, as a way of controlling the radii,
> with the top pulley pinned to a beam, to carry the weight ...
>
> Chris

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