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RE: Neat way for cable to pass through plasterboard


  • Subject: RE: Neat way for cable to pass through plasterboard
  • From: "Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:45:32 +0100

They sound like roses used by plumbers for microbore exiting walls.



Dean.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
christopher purves
Sent: 18 July 2005 08:37
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Neat way for cable to pass through plasterboard


Although I don't know where to get them from we have very neat little
plastic things that do what you are after in our flat. They have coax
cables

coming out of them. They are plastic circular disks that fit into the hole
and keep it tody.

Chris


>From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Neat way for cable to pass through plasterboard
>Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 20:28:50 +0100
>
>Can you not bring the cables up behind the plasterboard and directly
into
>the equipment? Or do you have to bring them out and along the surface
for
>some reason?
>
>Paul.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of
> > martinpalmer8
> > Sent: 17 July 2005 19:21
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Neat way for cable to pass through plasterboard
> >
> > This is probably a dumb question but I haven't found a
satisfactory
> > solution...
> >
> > I have some surface mounted equipment (e.g. heating controller,
> > security controller) into which I must terminate some low voltage
> > (<50V) cables (e.g. RS485, PIR sensor connections). The
equipment
> > enclosures have knockouts on the underside through which the
cables
>enter.
> >
> > The cables are run within dry lining. What is a neat way to bring
the
> > cable out through the plasterboard and up into the equipment? I
could
> > simply drill holes in the plasterboard and thread the cable
through
> > but this wouldn't look nice. I could have some 20mm conduit
coming out
> > of the wall and up into the knockouts which might look a bit
better. A
> > surface-mounted junction box (about 250mm width x 90mm height)
with
> > rear-entry knockouts occurred to me, but I can't find a decent
source.
> >
> > Does anyone have some neat ideas?
> >
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> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
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>Yahoo! Groups Links
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