Unusual / Interesting cable or wire installations

[12dbsinad]

There was this one time my wife and I got into the discussion of underground piping at the dinner table (I know, weird) and she asked how initially a pull rope got sent thru the pipe. I explained, "well a mouse is used for that", her eyes lit up! I said yeah! We take a mouse, tie a string to it's tail, place a piece of cheese on the other end of the pipe and block the entrance! Works great.

I then got "the look"......

 

[mmckenna]

Can you recommend a specific borescope that has worked well? I could use one here for a number of projects.

A bit more money that the smartphone versions, but I purchased one of these a few years back and have been happy with it. Uses regular AA Alkaline batteries, as I didn't want to buy the higher priced Milwaukee version to use my existing rechargeable batteries, and didn't want to buy into another brands rechargeable batteries. Has worked well for what I've needed.

RIDGID CA-25 Micro Visual Inspection & Diagnostic Handheld Camera w/ 2.7 in. Color Display, 4 ft. Fixed Waterproof Camera Cable 40043 - The Home Depot

The RIDGID micro CA-25 features a 17 mm aluminum imager head with 4 ultra-bright LED lights, bringing superior image quality to its 2.7" Color LCD Screen. It also features Video Out for transferring live

www.homedepot.com

Comes with some handy attachments.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

There was this one time my wife and I got into the discussion of underground piping at the dinner table (I know, weird) and she asked how initially a pull rope got sent thru the pipe. I explained, "well a mouse is used for that", her eyes lit up! I said yeah! We take a mouse, tie a string to it's tail, place a piece of cheese on the other end of the pipe and block the entrance! Works great.

I then got "the look"......

I was told. in all seriousness that a ferret was used to pull wire in nuclear plants.

 

[AK9R]

I won't talk about keeping cups of coffee warm by putting them on the final output tubes of the transmitter at another station.

A friend worked at the transmitter site for a broadcast station that also had an extensive satellite ground station. If you watched the Indianapolis 500 on TV in the 1990s, it was probably uplinked by this station. It wasn't unusual for him to warm his lunch on the leaky waveguide as it snaked its way through the ceiling.