On Wednesday, Feb 11, 2004, at 13:05 US/Pacific,
Richard.Prosser@POWERWARE.COM wrote:

> I don't think the strings would contribute much to pulling-in strength
> as
> by the time they had the slack taken out of them and their elasticity
> taken
> up the cable would have been too extended.

I'm pretty sure some of the fiber cable has kevlar strings added for
pull
strength.  you don't want to be stretching glass fibers!  (kevlar does
not stretch to speak of...)

billw

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