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Other then certifying it as cat-6 compliant and putting it in IT/PC magazines I have no idea.
Hey, I think we are on to something. Those idiots will buy anything if it's in an IT/PC magazine.
Another even better group to market to is the lunatic fringe audiophiles. Just say how lacing their $2000/ft speaker cables together with your lacing cord will add unbelievable clarity and sonic dimension previously thought impossible to obtain outside the vacuum of outer space.
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I was serious about actually learning the basics for lacing just because I am amazed at how it looks when done properly. I always like to learn things that impress me. At the next meet would be fine. Manual's never correctly explain the nuances that experience has.
An old electrical engineer that I did work for in high school showed me how he wanted stuff laced. Don't really remember it much other then it was a continuous piece of line. You would tie it off to either the connector or chassis, then run down the cable and every 2" do a loop that crossed at the top and pulled the line down to the next loop. You would end up with the line going from loop to loop going down one end of the cable like a stripe, and you could then use this stripe from loop to loop to tie other bundles together or tie them to the chassis.
Kind of hard to explain in words and I'm sure it was probably wrong but man did it look good when you were done.
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Here\'s an older topic on lacing, has some good information also. Sam's specs would be your best source.
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Sam, I would like to see that PDF too. One of the sound companies here in Toledo laced all the cables in the sound racks at the Student Union. Not sure if they still do it, these were installed 15 years ago. It looks pretty nice still!
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I learned to lace when I was with the electronics company I worked for right out of high school. They didn't want a running lace however, we just did individual ties. Reason was that they were always doing changes and you would have to relace the whole bundle to add a few extra wires. They were a prototype company though. For production where nothing changes a running lace is the way to go.
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Yeah, what I did was mostly final dressing before shipping the stuff to the customer. When he was hacking away on stuff he would just use a couple loops wherever it was convenient for him.
Later on before he moved to Orlando and I lost the job he had switched to using nylon mesh tubing (looks like a Chinese finger trap) and non-adhesive heat-shrink tubing to kind of secure it to the connectors. It was faster and easier usually but sometimes the tubing wouldn't expand enough to slide over the connectors. This was always a pain as I would have to pull the pins or de-solder the wires from the cups and fish them through the stuff.
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You must be talking about Tech Flex. Nice stuff but it frays if you don't cut it with a hot knife...
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Nothing like cable lacing - its the way to go.
Nothing like sticking your arm in a rack and coming out bleeding because someone couldn't cut the tywrap flush either!
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Sam, thanks for the info. Do you have a guide that shows how to do a running stitch?
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