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duk3luk3yesterday at 6:59 AM1 replyview on HN

you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through. You can then use the rope to pull through new cable. If you make the rope twice the length of the conduit, you can keep it in there indefinitely to pull through new cable whenever you want.


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barryvanyesterday at 7:36 AM

This is an unreasonably effective way of running cables. The first time I used it it felt like magic with how quick and painless it was.