Watch out for that old coax in the attic crawl space

I was on a job in a 1970s split-level last week and the main line from the pole was buried under blown-in insulation, but I found a short piece of old RG-59 running along a joist and used it as a pull string for the new RG-6. It saved me about an hour of fishing and kept me from having to cut a new hole in the soffit. What's the oldest cable you've found still useful on a job?

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campbell.evan3d ago

Heard a buddy find some ancient RG-8, proving river_scott right about old cable being risky.

river_scott3d ago

Careful using RG-59 as a pull string, that old jacket can be brittle. Found some cloth-wrapped 300 ohm twin-lead once that just crumbled.