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I've got about 200ft of conduit I'm trying to get a cable through and I'm not having a good time bros. Over about 10 years it filled up with water and mud somehow and I can't get shit through it.
Tried fish rod and it got 60ft and got a ton of resistance then stopped.
I got it clear enough that I can vacuum through it but a diy cone mouse gets stuck after also 60ft
I guess I can order a plug mouse and see if it will work but I'm pretty sure there's just a bunch of mud at some point that stops it.
Should I like flush the pipe with water? Maybe I can push the mouse through with water idk.
There's also a fiber cable going through it I can't fuck up/with so I'm not sure a piston mouse will work
Oh and I'm pretty sure some retard laid the pipe like a troglodyte and it has the joints both facing opposite ways on either end so shit gets stuck too
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>>2978774
Use a sandwich bag tied to jetline for you first pass it'll get through almost anything.
If the sandwich back goes through, pull better rope in with the jetline like muletape or nylon rope. Then do a spong mouse or something else if you want to make sure it's clean.
200ft might be possible but it's also long enough there might be intermediate boxes. If the fish is moving smoothly until you get to 60 ft and or just stops, that's probably a box or a break. Mark the tape where you are then lay it down on the ground to get an idea where the break is. Put it back in and bang on it with the fish and have someone stand near the suspect location and they can hear/feel the break.
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>>2978778
It's under 10 inches of concrete, I'm pretty sure it isn't broken because the vacuum works fine idk. I'll try sandwiche bag, I was using a cone made of packing tape and some pretty light weight string, it would pull giga hard for a while then stop like it hit a fucking brick wall. I'm not sure how the conduit runs but I think there is a sweep 90 around where things get stuck maybe, but the person that was there when it was put in said it went straight over to the other side. I just see where there might have been the concrete cut for it but it might be for something else.
What I thought is happening is the mud is built up where two pipes join, shoving the mouse into the hard edge of the next pipe
>>2978777
Did that a while back to blow all the water out the first time but got busy for a couple months and it filled back up with rain. The vacuum also does a good job of sucking all the water out
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>>2978800
>and it filled back up with rain.
Unless the rain got in the free ends (why didn't you cap them) the conduit may be broken in or under the slab. This could be a problem pulling. And you may have to use cable suitable for direct burial.
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>>2979060
>why didn't you cap them
On one end the troglodytes fucking brought it up outside and used a 90° pull box and the gasket probably leaks, and also some yard must have hit it with something and snapped one of the thread-slip on the going into the ground side
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>>2978774
Any sites where something might have settled over these 10 years? I once had that problem with conduit ending in a stack of buried well casings. I tried to fish it from the other side and got pretty close to my estimate of the length. Home owner dug down along the well casings, and lo and behold they'd settled far enough to bend thicc ass conduit (40mm PE water pipe, the stuff you need to heat with a blowtorch to have a prayer of bending it) into a hard 90 degree bend completely blocking that end of the pipe.
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>>2978778
>muletape
I got a bunch when they laid fiberoptic in my neighborhood xD