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Old 11-12-2008, 08:59 PM   #21
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If it pulled from the center, how did the wire come off straight ???

My complaint is with the new spools, they make the ends barely big enough to contain the wire so you have to fight with brand new spools.

An extra inch wouldn't kill them.
if i knew the answers, i'd remember the company that was hawking it...

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Old 11-13-2008, 09:22 AM   #22
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Re: Broken THHN Spools...


I keep the THHN in a plastic milk crate & pull it from there. I still break some rolls but it seems to help.
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Milk crates rock

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The old square boxes of thw or tw used to have a printed circle at the middle of the box that you cut out with a knife. Then you could pull out the wire from the center of the box. The yo-yo's you get from stranded wire are worse than the ones that came from the old tw boxes, the stuff pulled pretty good as I recall, but then that was a long long time ago...... Back then I was a real man, cause all I did was bend pipe and pull wire. Now I mostly use that pretend stuff- you know- romex....:
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Thw????

tw????

I thought I was old.
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