Sunday afternoon, I was wiring up a new phone jack for the living room. I was halfway across the basement when I found that the long run of 4-pair I was using was actually two short runs tangled together.
The splice is ugly as hell (finger twisted connections + electrical tape + a couple of wire staples to make sure there's no tension on the join), but it works. The fact that I also had to run out to the hardware store at 1830 (they close at 1900) to get a new wire stripper since my old one had wandered off didn't help things any.
(OTOH, doing the termination was easy; I have a small 110 block that's my voice line "distribution frame", and have a handful of 6P6C and 8P8C jacks that use 110 terminals as well. I also have a standard punchdown tool with blades for 66 and 110, though I haven't used the 66 blade in well over a decade.)
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Work Safe and absolutely cute!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tklx3j7kgJY
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The splice is ugly as hell (finger twisted connections + electrical tape + a couple of wire staples to make sure there's no tension on the join), but it works. The fact that I also had to run out to the hardware store at 1830 (they close at 1900) to get a new wire stripper since my old one had wandered off didn't help things any.
(OTOH, doing the termination was easy; I have a small 110 block that's my voice line "distribution frame", and have a handful of 6P6C and 8P8C jacks that use 110 terminals as well. I also have a standard punchdown tool with blades for 66 and 110, though I haven't used the 66 blade in well over a decade.)
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http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/2010/08/02/elite-commando/
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:P
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