The only way to do this is to go to Home Depot and get around six
inches to a foot of 1 inch (to accommodate the inline connectors)
schedule 40 PVC pipe. You can buy larger diameter pipe as needed ...
up to 1/2 inch to 4 inches. Buy two end caps for the pipe. Drill an
appropriate hole in the end caps. Run your Ethernet through the end
caps with the inline connector ending up in the middle of the pipe.
The hole on the end caps only has to be large enough to accommodate
the wire. The pipe has to be large enough to hold your inline connection.
So now your CAT is threaded through the end caps and plugged into the
inline connector which is sitting in the middle of the PVC pipe,
with one end cap on, and one off, and slid back on the wire. Fill the
pipe with 100 percent pure silicon caulk pushing it in the pipe with
a stick so it comes out the hole of the closed end cap. Once the
pipe is filled up with silicon, slide the other end cap in place and
then top off the silicon though the whole in the cap, so is comes out
the end cap.
Now just let it sit for a bit so the exposed silicon surface drys
while you clean up your tools, and hands with paint thinner and paper
towels. Now you have something that is not only impervious to
moisture, and the elements, but it is an a very tough enclosure.
Eventually all that silicon will harden.
If you absolutely had to you could take it apart, but it would be
messy and you would have to cut up the pipe. It would be better to
just cut the wire and do a new enclosure.
good luck
At 04:43 PM 7/21/2010, you wrote:
Ok, have a location where a 1000' splice of ethernet runs and makes
a turn. Due to a really poorly cut conduit by the client, this has
never been right since the beginning. So, wire people out, we're
trying to think of a unique solution. We had a wild brainstorm today.
Here's the deal. At 600', a box in the ground (about 2' down)
joins. Cable comes in both ways. Joins there (just couplers
basically). But the box fills with water every single night all the way.
The wire installer tried a weathertight box (still leaked in once
submerged, more designed to resist rain) and they've tried wrapping
with electrical tape, etc.. in the end, same thing happens, short
across live wires and down she goes.
So, a guy at the meeting, the sprinkler systems person proposed
something I thought was ridiculous but I've thought about since all
day. Get a can of Crisco, wrap the wires, and run them down into
the crisco can, seal the top, let go. Crisco would hold out the
water and it's non-conductive. This is after they suggested peanutbutter.
We all laughed like crazy when these were suggested. Now I'm
wondering how dumb of an idea this would actually be... worst case,
you're just out the $5 to try...
