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CommScope Trunk & Distribution Cable User Manual

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Drive-Off/Moving Reel - Expansion Loops/Passing the Pole

Form the Expansion Loops

Stop the lasher about 6 feet/1.8 meters from the pole. If an expansion loop is required, attach the mechanical

bender to the strand in the appropriate position (see Aerial Installation/3.4).

If you are cutting the cable, make sure to leave enough cable tail to accommodate any splicing, equipment or

expansion loops.

Passing the Pole

Attach a lashing wire clamp far enough from the pole to accommodate an expansion loop or equipment. Open

the lasher gates. Disconnect the set-up chute, pusher and lasher and pass them across the pole-face. Place them

on the unlashed strand far enough from the pole to accommodate an expansion loop or equipment and

reassemble them.

Close the lasher gates. The lasher cannot be pulled backward along the strand while the gates to the lasher are

closed. Cut the lashing wire and secure it to the lashing wire clamp. Make sure that the lashing wire does not

loosen from around the cable.

Attach another lashing wire clamp to the strand on the unlashed side of the pole allowing enough distance for an

expansion loop or equipment. Connect the wire from the lasher to the new clamp.

Place the cable in the set-up chute and the lasher.

Rotate the cable reel to take up any excess slack. Continue until the installation is complete.

keep the bender in

place while lashing

the first 50 ft (15 m)

pull the lasher toward the reel

watch the set-up

chute for possible

binding

3.14

Aerial Installation

Drive-Off/Moving Reel Expansion Loops