Are the cables "food safe?"
Could installation work contaminate drinking water?
Z.
Are the cables "food safe?"
Could installation work contaminate drinking water?
Z.
I do recall about 20 years ago it being mooted that one could use the sewage system to route optical fibres. I do recall thinking that anyone working on it for repairs and additions would probably demand danger money 
The only folk I know did anything like that for real were the 1980s London Pirate radio stations who would get their antenna feeds from roof to an empty upstairs flat via the soil stack, and would typically take the loo out to catch the cables on the way down. They would also often plant the antenna mast in the top of the stack with a length of scaffold pole or similar.
Of course if the station was raided, and they left in a hurry and it all fell down the hole, it left a terrible problem for the building maintainence chaps and chapesses to sort out at the bottom..
No really new ideas.
Mike.
I do recall about 20 years ago it being mooted that one could use the sewage system to route optical fibres. I do recall thinking that anyone working on it for repairs and additions would probably demand danger money
The only folk I know did anything like that for real were the 1980s London Pirate radio stations who would get their antenna feeds from roof to an empty upstairs flat via the soil stack, and would typically take the loo out to catch the cables on the way down. They would also often plant the antenna mast in the top of the stack with a length of scaffold pole or similar.
Of course if the station was raided, and they left in a hurry and it all fell down the hole, it left a terrible problem for the building maintainence chaps and chapesses to sort out at the bottom..
No really new ideas.
Mike.