It would enable you to make a more intelligent estimate but have a ready
source of more cable handy because all you would need is one box with
more packing or has the wrong type of cable or something and it would
throw your numbers off.
Is the project that big that you can't just open all of the boxes and
see what you have? Your post gives me the impression that you are
talking about miles of cable.
Mark
On 05/04/2015 01:54 PM, John Mort wrote:
We just finished a big project that included running a bunch of cable
for workstations. We have another such project scheduled for the end
of the year. Though we bought a bunch of new boxes of cable for this
last project and I'm confident that we have enough cable for this next
one, I'd like to be sure.
The idea occurred to me that we could cut out a section of cable and
weigh it, then weigh the boxes of cable, determine the weight of an
empty box and subtract that, then use division to determine how many
feet of cable are left in the box.
Has anyone done anything like this before? What kind of scale did you
use? Is there a better way to do this?
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