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adinisom 14 hours ago

If you want to pull another cable:

- secure a string to the old cable

- pull the cable out the other end, pulling the string through

- secure the string to the new cable

- pull the string out the other end, pulling the new cable into position

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EvanAnderson 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Pull a string alongside the new cable, too, and tie it off on both ends. Always leave a pull string in the conduit.

	▲	rovr138 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> a string At this point, multiple. Just in case.

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alexfoo 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You forgot to also tie another piece of string to the new cable so that you pull the new cable AND this other bit of string through.

This gives you a piece of string in the conduit run to be able to pull through the next thing days/weeks/years later.

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jaeckel 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> [...] a string [...]

Does someone have a recommendation for a specific material the string should be made of?

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upofadown 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Back in my day the local telephone company used waxed lacing cable for that sort of thing[1]. These days it seems that polypropylene string is popular (search on "conduit pull string").

You basically want something that is slippery and will tend to not get stuck. I have used Dacron fishing line, but that is mostly because I had a bunch of it laying around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

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brianwawok 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The sell pulling string in the electrical section of the hardware store.

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relaxing 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They also make bottles of cable pulling lubricant for this purpose.

	▲	sgarland 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		AKA boy butter [0]. 0: http://www.electricalslang.com/Slang/boy%20butter

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fried-gluttony 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Excuse me to hijack this comment adinisom.

I wanted to reach you regarding your comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44547866 Would you be willing to maybe elaborate on the problems caused - I've planned to adopt Miro Sameks for an application? DM me via my about me, if interested. Would be very thankful.