8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
9:57 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> Absolutely. My wife thinks I'm nuts for
putting in the time and effort
> to figure out how to run a bundle of Ethernet and fiber cables through
> the walls of our nearly 100-year-old house ("Don't we have wireless?").
I ran "interduct" (http://www.innerduct.com/products/corrugated.php) from my
basement to my back bedroom about 15 years ago and stuffed it with some
Cat5, some multi-mode fiber, two 25-pair Cat3 telco bundles (phone and
dumb terminals), and one 10Base2 for old stuff. There's still some room
in there for a few more bits.
> It was totally worth figuring out how to bend a
10-foot length of 2"
> PVC conduit to go into the ceiling of our 6-foot basement, though (fun
> fact: 2" PVC conduit can bend nearly 90 degrees if you work hard enough
> at it).
They now have a nice PVC heater/bender that I saw reviewed in Make
Magazine recently. You stuff the PVC in a corrugated tube, plug it in
and wait for the plastic to become soft and nearly limp. I presume one
removes the hot PVC and bends it to shape before it cools (the review
didn't make it clear if you are meant to remove power, then bend, then
cool, then remove, or some other order of operations). I don't know if
they make a 2" version, but the smaller version seemed to be quite
handy for trivial shaping.
-ethan