• Technus@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Just be careful unspooling it, it loves to kink up and any bend with a radius tighter than like 2 inches ruins the cable.

    I once helped my brother run about 15 strands through his house and only around half of them actually worked when we were done. Wish we knew that when we started.

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      2 days ago

      Back-coiling is a game changer. Every other coil is reversed, leaving a net zero in coils. It just pulls out straight.

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        9 hours ago

        It was a leftover spool from a contractor friend of his that would have just been thrown away otherwise.