Everybody has their methods that they're happy with.

Me? I'm lazy. I like to set up all of my spools of wire in one location and leave them there. At the rack. In the mechanical room.

For really long basement pulls, through mechanical rooms, I use Arlington "D" rings. I screw the first and last ring to the ceiling using all of the screw holes. All of the other rings I attach on one side only. I pull cables through the first ring and the last ring until I have the length I need. Then I walk back and loop the cable over the other rings and then screw the other half of the rings to the ceiling. That way I don't have to thread the cables through each and every ring.

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