
frederic
New member
Yeah I pulled all the phone, network, CATV, and audio when my house was built (90% of it is still not terminated ;P)
I slung cat 5E to every room in the house (I mean EVERY room) and a lot of it is unterminated. My wife, after I ran all these cables, decided having cat 5E in the bathrooms is a bit much. Same for the bedroom. :-D
I bought really high quality stuff as well... except I caused myself a world of hurt... when I pulled it because I had limited number of boxes, I pulled a strand at a time... turns out I burned the outer casing on several wires by pulling others against them (the friction caused by a cat5 cable is horrid) Anyhow... long story short... had to pull it ALL back out and inspect it... and put it back.
By the way, if you're pulling wires through conduit, whether it be one or many, or some now some later, always use electrician's grease as you feed the wire in. When the ends come out the other side, wipe it off with a paper towel and splice in. Protects your wires, and is just a little yucky to touch when teh wire comes out the other end.
For particularly thick power cabling not only was the cable greased, but also pulled through with a gasoline powered wire puller.
When the strands are 6 ga, and you have 60 strands making up "stranded power wire", trust me, human's ain't pulling that through conduit grease or no grease :-D But thats how you get 1000A into a commercial building.