Re: How would you do this?

[Paul Robinson]

Depending on how big the hole is, and how many cat5 you want to pull
through
you could:

(1) overlap a cat5 with the end of the coax by about 2 feet, and wrap lots
of tape around it so that when you pull the coax it won't lose the cat5.
The
hole needs to be big enough to take both coax and cat5 for this though.

or

(2) Strip about 1 foot of the coax sheathing leaving you with the central
copper core. Make an "eye" out of it by bending the copper back
on itself
and wrapping it tightly round itself. Strip about 1 foot of sheathing off
the cat5, feed the cores through the eye on the coax, and wrap the cores
tightly around the cat5. Doing it this way should mean that the join is
smaller than either cable, so you can get it through a smaller hole.
Alternatively, it may mean you can get more cat5 through.

Good luck!

HTH
Paul

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Subject: [KAT5] How would you do this?


> More from the newbie.
>
> I've just been up in the loft... and lo and behold I have a co-ax
cable
that
> runs down into the lounge.
>
> If the co-ax cable can make it, so can a cat5 cable, right?
>
> The route it takes seems fairly tight... and fairly hard to get to...
it
is
> in the furthest corner of the loft. Quite a squeeze.
>
> Sooo... what's a foolproof way of getting a cat5 cable to take the
same
> route.
>
> By foolproof, I mean that I don't end up with 20' of useless co-ax
cable
> downstairs, 20' of cat5 cable upstairs, and a small hole with no cable
in
it
> and no way of re-using the hole :)
>
> Thx! :)
>
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