Zakky - Thanks for the string dude :)

[Tumble]

For the first time in a long time.... I have used string to do something real and not just to attach some bauble to the end of to torment the cat....

Wiring a new network point into my room.... pretty messy on my side - just a hole in the ceiling where the TV ariel comes through, so easy enough... but the room where the router is... I cose the ariel route there too cos there's already a conduit in the wall ( I don't wanna start rippin walls out cos it's me mum's house..) aaaaanyway..

Up into the loft - find cable poking through floor from my room... find ariel cable going down into mum's room.... first problem.. the top of the conduit is buried under a considerable amount of roof insulatin.. horrible glass wool stuff yuk... so I dig that off first... second problem... the phone extensino cable shares the same conduit... not a lot of room for Mr. Cat5.... hmm. I try to thread the thing down anyway - never know your luck in a raffle. I need about 1.7 metres of this cable to disappear... I get a mtre and a half down the pipe and it hits a snag... won't go anywhere and the other cables have tightened up too... not a lot of room down there apparently.. so I unplug the TV ariel from the wall socket and take the wire out of the top... Netwrok goes down a treat then.. go to stick the ariel back in.. get 1.6 metres down the pipe and stuck... bleh.. so both out.. consider... then it hits me... fy back down the ladder (i've been stuck in a hole in the roofspace for an hour, sweating cobs and being VERY VERY dusty, so I look shocking.. yes worse than normal) find my big roll of string and cut 2 big lengths... find the biggest screw I can - a good 2.5" wood screw - just the ticket, and tie it to the end of one of the bits of string..

Race back up the ladder.. squeeze into me little hole in the loft and feed the string down till I hear it clunk on the bottom of the conduit.... race downstairs and remove screw and repeat with the second string...

tie the ends of the string to the cables and then pull them down the conduit one at a time... the network was second, and I nearly snapped it when it caught in the tight bit... but it came through and that's it - mission accomplished thanks to 2 bits of string... and a wood screw

Wish I'd thought of that to start with

Just gotta stick a plug on the end and thats it now.... it can wait til tomorrow

[Howard]

String is such useful stuff

[Knoxville]

The only thing more useful than string is Duct Tape, if you have both there's nothing you can't fix

[acidrainy]

The only thing more useful than string is Duct Tape, if you have both there's nothing you can't fix

Don't forget electrical tape! That stuff is essential for keeping a 1967 VW Beetle on the go