Yep, drive hooks are very helpful in these cases:
https://www.borderstates.com/UserFiles/MdmContent/documents/CHN000581.pdf
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] how to anchor messenger wire Cat5
Several times. I found that the messenger wire/cable itself is too small
to get it to clamp properly. I've also stripped the insulation off the
messenger and also left it attached.
Stripping the insulation off is only a minor PITA, and I find the
messenger is a lot stiffer with the insulation left on. So what I have
gone to doing is just separating a couple feet of the messenger, and
loop it through a screw eye that is anchored in a good post, tree, wall,
whatever. Then I wrap the insulated messenger back around itself as many
times as it will go. I then use several tie wraps to hold it all together.
The tie wraps will "probably" die with age, but once the messenger has
been wrapped for a few weeks to a few months, it more or less takes a
"set' and it stays put.
bp
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On 4/9/2016 9:14 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Without getting into the question of whether to use Cat5 with an
integral messenger wire for overhead runs, as opposed to some other
approach like a separate messenger cable. I also know there has been
discussion about figure 8 cable flapping in the wind. But ...
Has anyone used the Primus or Shireen messenger wire cable, and how
did you anchor the messenger wire? I assume you slit the web and
separate some of the messenger wire and anchor that, do you leave the
PVC jacket on it, or strip it off to expose the steel cable?
Then do you just loop the steel cable and put one of those wire rope
U-bolts on it?
