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Some good replies here.

I want to just note that with the new cat6 and cat7 stuff, "pin-striping" is going to be a thing of the past since cables in parallel are prone to crosstalk at higher frequencies! We actually had one customers IT guy have a fit because we did not pin stripe the closet. When we tried to educate him on why we did not pin stripe, he balked. He simply could not understand why it increased crosstalk at higher frequencies!

There are things I still don't know about there KC...what is "pin-striping"?

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You can customize the length of the handle with a hacksaw...

Pin-striped is when the cables are all uniform and parallel to each other as it enters the IDF/MDF, all the way down to the rack termination.

Looks very pretty and professional, but is no longer a good idea with the higher data rates that will be pushed along a cable.

Is there any other way to terminate 400 runs; perpendicular? What you are saying does not make sense.

Rusty, what K.C. is saying is that pin-striping refers to cables being perfectly bundled with no cables crossing over each other (at least on the visible layer). It's really more of an asthetics thing. I have mentioned this before, but I used to work with a guy who intentionally ran one cable of a different color in the bundle so that you could see how it ran perfectly along with the other cables in the bundle. It was a lot of work, but it sure showed nicely.

All it means is that we need to take less time to dress out the cables and line them all up. You can still have a bundle of parallel cables, but the bundle should now be more loose, and the lay of the cables and spacing between them should be less uniform.

For those of us who are very particular about the appearance of our installations, this is not going to be easy. I haven't yet been able to force myself to leave my cables intentionally messy. Perhaps if I have issues getting my cables to certify I'll go back and tussle up the cable bundle a bit.

I agree with Clinton. But it took time before the "engineers" figured where the spikes where coming from so no more pin-stripping. You can kind of do it with the outer layer of cables to make it look a bit neater.
Rustynails cable straighten tool looks familiar, don't they use that at Federal?

LMAO that was good :rofl:

we sell those at my hardware store too!
available with your choice of wood or fiberglass handle! and for straightening out those messes of 25 and up pair cables, we present you with this tool: