The old board of directors has gone and the bloke who stepped in to pick up the pieces was the man from Mr Gloss, Ray Malone.

No ordinary panel beater he and cable way, with 35 per cent ownership, Malone is now running the show; so he has been busy dealing with lawsuits, bank debt and profitless sales.

Waving a copy of a bare-bones-produced set of accounts at cable duct the annual meeting yesterday, he said that previously it had been a ”glossy, flashy thing”

Most fiber cable manufacturers produce cable duct  fiber cables containing less than 432 fibers in order to meet the 1 inch diameter size requirement for 1.25 inch innerduct. So for a 4 inch conduit, the maximum fiber counts is 1296 fibers.

But compared to copper cables, fiber cables still have the advantage of higher fiber counts with smaller diameters. The common practice cable trunking  in fiber optic cable installation then, is to place multiple 1.25 inch innerducts in the common 3.5 inch or 4 inch conduit structures, this practice basically doubles or triples the duct capacity.

For OSP (outside plant) fiber cable installations, the challenge is different than indoor applications. In this case, you have to choose the correct inside diameter of the innerduct.

The most common conduit is 100mm in diameter and 150mm diameter is becoming more popular. Conduit is laid in the ground, and innerducts are drawn through the cable way conduit. Fiber optic cables are then deployed and pulled through the innerducts.

Then more on duct tape: “That stuff is kind of hard on your skin. After the 50th time it’s been ripped off your face, I could see the makeup artist cringe after every take. … I wanted them to use the real thing trunking, because real duct tape kind of reads differently on film. I had a horrible rash the next day. But it was worth it.

“The director let me improvise stuff and wanted to hear what I had to say. I always like that. He probably was happy when I had tape over my mouth and couldn’t make more suggestions.”

Parker, at 46, is at the top of her game, her screen sex appeal dialed up to a Showtime-induced peak. She has come a long way since cable channel her film career began with a string of earnest, sometimes earthy and sweet roles — think “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “Grand Canyon.”

As an interview, she’s long been a puzzling, stream-of-conscious delight. It’s a key to her appeal — the wide, innocent eyes, the occasional sneaky bad girl grin, the sexy non sequiturs. It’s why she’s perfectly cast as Sarah, who handles cable way pension problems for a “retired extremely dangerous” (“RED”) agent played by Bruce Willis in the new film, which opens Friday. Sarah is a great phone flirt, but is appalled when he kidnaps her “for your own safety.”

The Gold Coast’s stagnant tourism industry has prompted renewed calls for the construction of a cableway from Mudgeeraba  to  Springbrook, and Premier Anna Bligh has cited the Cairns Skyrail as a perfect example wire duct of a rainforest cable way that worked without harming the environment.

Ms Bligh said although a previous proposal for a similar cableway on the Gold Coast was rejected by the State Government because of environmental cable duct concerns, a plan that addressed those problems might be approved wiring duct.