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Shoutout to the old guy in Tulsa who got me off zip ties for bundled drops
I always used zip ties on my bundle runs, figured they were cheap and fast, and I had been doing it that way for about 5 years. Last month a retired installer in Tulsa watched me cinch a bundle of 12 cat6 runs tight and just shook his head, then pulled out a roll of velcro and redid two of my drops in less than a minute. When I came back a week later to add a circuit, the velcro bundle opened up clean and the zip tied ones had crushed the jacket on the bottom two cables. Now I keep a roll of velcro in the pouch and my bundle pulls go way smoother. Any of you run into jacket damage from tight ties, or am I the only one who learned this the hard way?
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lopez.faith9h ago
That line about the jacket crushing on the bottom two cables is the part people miss, since the damage sits under the bundle where nobody looks until a tester fails a pair months later. Cheap ties cost way more than velcro once you count a callback, even if the invoice never shows it.
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