Ron from Michigan said:
Fisherfinder,LOL that was one costly mistake.Thanks Ron
LOL
Yeah Ron, a while back, just by chance, I parked right in front of a cable manufacturer here in my town.
I made a note of it and a few days later I called and asked for the owner. I told him what the problem was
and he told me to bring by what I had so he could have a look at it.
I brought over four coils. A couple that the cable had gone bad on, and a couple that were good.
He took one look at the bad cables and told me right away that the sheath was the wrong material on those.
He laid a good cable next to a bad one and showed me the difference.
It's been over a year since I went there, but I am pretty sure that he said that the cable sheath that puts up
with sun, rain, salt, cold, hot, and the elements in general, is a "urethane" material. The one that went by the
way side was "vinyl".
I asked him, "how on earth could something like this happen?"
Here is what he said.............
"It probably went like this", " The time came to purchase cable, maybe the cable they usually purchase wasn't
available for another three weeks, or maybe the sales guy offered a cable with the same specs at a lower price,
either way the lady in purchasing bought the cable suggested by the sales guy. Problem being, the cable purchased
was only equal in regards to it's electrical properties, the number of wires, size and color of wires,....like that.
It would work fine for indoor applications. Rock and roll bands, guitars, microphones, amplifiers, and what have you.
But, the sheathing is not able to withstand the elements, eventually it will crumble"
Of course there is the chance that the supplier shipped the wrong cable because spools of cable were mismarked.
All I know is the man I spoke to has been in the cable making business for 40 plus years.
His company makes cable that is used on oil platforms and are exposed to the elements day in and day out.
His company also makes and supplies cable to the military that he told me will last in the worst environments
you can imagine for 100 years or more. That cable is not available to the public, only to the military.
So gentlemen that is what I found out.
The only part I left out was the pretty woman that walked me to the conference room.
Well, there is this................
For $100 in green money he would have one of the guys set up a machine to make just the sheath, the proper sheath.
for that money I would get roughly a half dozen 10ft lengths.
There are a lot of smart guys here,.... you know what comes next.
The I.D. size of that sheath would be critical. As little as .010 could mean the difference between a pretty straight forward job,
and one big stink bomb.
What I'm saying is, if the I.D. is in "any way" too small you're done for.
Only God would be able to do it, and he would struggle with it.
(he wouldn't cuss and swear like we would, but he would still struggle)
So there you have it.
Fisherfinder