What brand and model of cable are you using? Several years ago there was a
brand that enticed animal chewing due to an ingredient in the outer jacket
that was the same used in artificial sweetener.


On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 10:29 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Conduit is your friend, but you do have to exit the conduit at some
> point.  It certainly reduces the number of places where an animal can get
> at it.
>
> For radios with cable glands, you can replace the gland with the right
> fittings to bring conduit all the way to the device.  We did that once, but
> it's very difficult to work with.  Wouldn't try that again.  You'd need a
> way to slide the conduit back several inches separately from the cable so
> you can access the plug.  Like some kind of sliding union.
>
>
> On 5/8/2020 10:14 AM, Sean Heskett wrote:
>
> Yup all kinds of critters love cabling, I think it has a soy based product
> in it or something.
>
> Solution is to put the cable in armored liquidtight conduit.
>
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=liquidtight&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 8:06 AM Matt <matt.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have a tower and a bundle of cat5's going up.  Seems raccoons(I
>> assume) climb up occasionally and chew on cat5 wires.  Had one other
>> tower this happened.  Anyone else have this happen?
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