maxb46•3mo ago

Spent 45 minutes untangling a spool of RG6 yesterday

I grabbed a new box of cable from the truck and it was already spiderwebbed inside before I even pulled 10 feet. Ended up sitting on a customer's driveway cutting out the mess and splicing back together. Anybody else had bad luck with a certain batch of cable lately?

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mila_craig43mo ago

You ever have a box that looked fine on the outside but was just one giant birds nest the second you cracked it open? Had a whole spool of Cat5e do that to me last week, spent longer fighting it than running the actual cable.

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jade8853mo ago

Grab the box and spin it so the cable comes off the side instead of the middle. That's the trick I learned after tossing way too much footage from tangled spools. Also check the date code on the box - stuff that sat in a hot warehouse too long gets sticky and loves to knot up on its own. If you're pulling more than 20 feet at a time, let the box rest on its side and feed it out slow instead of yanking.

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