aiguilles
English translation: draw wire / fish wire
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| 16:10 Dec 28, 2010 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / duct/cable laying | |||||||
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| Kiwipedia, money, and Robin Hood |
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peer agreement (net): +1draw wires Explanation: Please try a KudoZ term search, this has certainly come up before, maybe in EN >FR... if my memory serves me correctly, this was the term that came out then, but you'd do best to check... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2010-12-28 17:34:56 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- So? I don't quite see the connection... The 'aiguilles' may be finer wires used for pulling the actual puling wires ('cablette') through; unless you think that here they're some kind of end-piece, by analogy with a needle pulling a thread? |
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| Reference: Kiwipedia, money, and Robin Hood Reference information: Kiwipedia says: Aiguille, aiguillé, ... Fish-wire, fish-wired (wire in cable ducting for drawing cable through); draw cable/wire, fish tape [Chambers]; [Scott Building] I think we've all seen a Robin Hood (etc.) movie where a thin line is attached to an arrow which is fired up a cliff etc. The thin line is used by someone at the top to pull up a heavier line, and the heavier is line is then used to pull up a very heavy cable. I imagine it's the same in your ducts. They COULD install a heavier wire to start with, but I imagine the manufacturer makes standard ducting that might not need a heavier cable in all cases, and it's cheaper to produce ducting with a lighter one, and the installer's duty to pull a heavier line through first before pulling in the actual cable. |
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