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>>>Come on - no real cable lacers in the crowd? Must be a lost art. I remember when...
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>>Interestingly, some of the techniques for cable lacing shown in http://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/ are also used in building fishing rods - attaching guides to the blank. That's another dying art.
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>Yep. A lasting product when done properly. I was taught lacing a long time ago - took about 2 weeks to get proficient. The only place I see it today is in telco CO's - and some of them are going plastic.
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>Would I use it today? Nah, I buy tie wraps in bulk. Time is money.

Exactly ;)

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>BTW Al, that bottom box you claimed as yours <s>, could have been cleaned up nicely with just a couple of ties - that's what I'd have hung the routers up with. ;-)

Yeah, that job is not really as bad as it first appears. The judges probably gave them a bunch of demerits when they opened the panel and the routers practically fell in their laps :)