Re: [Paddlewise] Better than a throw rope?

From: John Fereira <fereira_at_albert.mannlib.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 99 15:07:57 EDT
> 
> phil wrote...
> snip
> 
> >Aside from my sadistic need to repel uncontrollably
> >panicky people,
> >      what do listmates think of the disk concept?
> >
> 
> Might be good for shooting a line between boats or islands, you know,
> frisbee over the small line, connected to the big line etc.
  
I once had to run some networking cable between a couple of buildings
about 50' apart.  I picked up a soft foam rubber ball about the size
of a softball at a toy store and then poked a hole through it and
fed line in it with a 5" nail.  Then I tied the line to the cable
and threw it from the top of the root of one building to the other.
It worked so well that I kept the ball with the line in it our raised
floor computer room.  Whenever I needed to run a cable under the floor
I'd just lift up the floor tiles where I wanted to cable to go from
and to, look under the floor to see where the other end was supposed
to go, and then toss the ball under the raised tile floor, find
the line at the other end and pull the cable through.


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John Fereira
jaf30_at_cornell.edu
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