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I have some coaxial cable on my wall, I need to replace it with a different cable, but when I pull the cable, it doesn't move at all.
I know in the US it's common that these cables are stapled, but where I live that is not common at all, these are brick walls, and the cables are inside plastic tubes. I think the cables have been there for a very long time and now they are stuck, is there a way to pull those cables?
They sell modular wall plates in 1 to 6 port flavors.
Pick up as many as you need from the local home improvement store. Grab some F type modules, and some low voltage brackets while you're there.
The pointy connectors are "male" connectors, whereas the holey connectors are "female". When a male connector loves a female connector very much... You get the picture (I hope).
There is no way to say for sure why there are so many cables here. It's possible that some come from somewhere, while others go somewhere else. You'll have to trace the cables to determine where they come from, or where they go to.
For this a cable tracer such as the Gardner Bender Wire-Tracker, can come in handy.
The amplifier appears to have Belling-Lee connectors (Wikipedia) while the cables look like they have "F" connectors (Wikipedia). Assuming you are in Europe, you should be able to find adapters. If you are in the USA, BL adapters are hard to find but I've gotten them from Radio Shack in the past.
Also called PAL or European to F Adapter
Best Answer
They would not be stapled in conduit anywhere in the world.
Check very carefully that you have found both ends of the same cable/conduit. The most likely reasons for "being stuck" are:
Typical access points involve a relatively sharp bend which you will NOT be able to pull around, since you are supposed to remove the cover and pull from the open access point.
If you think you have eliminated those possibilities, you could put a vacuum cleaner (wet or wet/dry type - a "shop vac") at one end, and verify that you really do have the correct conduit at the other end by noticing the air getting sucked in there, and then you could apply some wire pulling lubricant to the open end, and allow the vacuum to pull it into and through the conduit. That should help the wire to move, if it's not actually bound up by a sharp turn at an access point you have not opened to pull from.