frederic
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After I designed the layout of my studio, and built it all out, the time comes to start the wiring. I had peeked into the eaves of the house behind the short wall, behind the console table. The floor joists to lengthwise to the room, which is good. As I started channelling into the garage's ceiling below the studio, I quickly discovered only the eave's joists go in that direction - the main joists go across the width of the studio. So that means I can either drill 20 1" holes through the middle of the joists, and seriously weaken them, or run the snake cable on the surface of the garage ceiling. I decided to do the latter, even though I think it will ultimately be ugly.
Anyway... here is how I decided to do it. I welded together 10" wide, 2" tall "staples" using square tubing. Then screwed them into the joists, right through the plaster ceiling.
Homemade, supersized staples:
After dicking around with the ceiling trying to find a joist, I finally found one and installed the first "staple":
I made enough staples to go from the front hole, to the back hole in the ceiling, with the assumption that the joists are on the "normal" 16" centers. Sure enough, that was not the case, and the 2x16" joists (and they are really 2"x16" too, not like modern lumber which is always short) are on 11" centers. Not 12" centers, 11" centers:
So tomorrow, assuming the weather holds out, I have to make seven more "Staples" and attach them to the ceiling.
I've already cut enough 31' sections of 24-ch snake cable off the spool so once the last staple is installed I can start feeding the cable through. I've also bundled two cat 5's, two RS232, one 50 ohm coax ethernet cable for the "Akainet" function of my recorders, as well as a 75 ohm CATV coax for passing wordclock to the producer's desk. I bundled all the non-snake cable together using electrical tape spaced 16", and it's slightly narrower than the snake cable so everything should fit in my staples with room to spare.
Once that's done, I can continue soldering. I've already hacked up some additional snake cable to make the cross-connects from the various pieces of gear on the console table to the doghouse, I just have to buy and solder on TRS plugs. Xstatic gave me a fantastic price on authentic Switchcraft TRS plugs which were only slightly more expensive than the generic copies I was going to have made, but I'm still undecided what to do. Quality speaks volumes to me, yet I'm a cheap SOB. Hmmmmm. Anyway, TY Xstatic for a tremendously awesome price. I'll keep you posted. I'd have made a decision already except I'm terribly undercaffienated and can barely sit up. I've been up since 3am since my son decided to scream at the top of his lungs, which is unusual actually.
Anyway... here is how I decided to do it. I welded together 10" wide, 2" tall "staples" using square tubing. Then screwed them into the joists, right through the plaster ceiling.
Homemade, supersized staples:
After dicking around with the ceiling trying to find a joist, I finally found one and installed the first "staple":
I made enough staples to go from the front hole, to the back hole in the ceiling, with the assumption that the joists are on the "normal" 16" centers. Sure enough, that was not the case, and the 2x16" joists (and they are really 2"x16" too, not like modern lumber which is always short) are on 11" centers. Not 12" centers, 11" centers:
So tomorrow, assuming the weather holds out, I have to make seven more "Staples" and attach them to the ceiling.
I've already cut enough 31' sections of 24-ch snake cable off the spool so once the last staple is installed I can start feeding the cable through. I've also bundled two cat 5's, two RS232, one 50 ohm coax ethernet cable for the "Akainet" function of my recorders, as well as a 75 ohm CATV coax for passing wordclock to the producer's desk. I bundled all the non-snake cable together using electrical tape spaced 16", and it's slightly narrower than the snake cable so everything should fit in my staples with room to spare.
Once that's done, I can continue soldering. I've already hacked up some additional snake cable to make the cross-connects from the various pieces of gear on the console table to the doghouse, I just have to buy and solder on TRS plugs. Xstatic gave me a fantastic price on authentic Switchcraft TRS plugs which were only slightly more expensive than the generic copies I was going to have made, but I'm still undecided what to do. Quality speaks volumes to me, yet I'm a cheap SOB. Hmmmmm. Anyway, TY Xstatic for a tremendously awesome price. I'll keep you posted. I'd have made a decision already except I'm terribly undercaffienated and can barely sit up. I've been up since 3am since my son decided to scream at the top of his lungs, which is unusual actually.