Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am SO happy to see someone appreciate the MAGIC this guy is performing! ric > On Nov 25, 2020, at 12:37 AM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> > wrote: > > If that telco technician is doing what I think he is doing, then that is > one of the most challenging jobs in telephone plant maintenance. It > appears that he is replacing a damaged segment of 600-pair PIC cable by > splicing in a new clean piece to replace the damaged span. This means he > has to make 2400 wire splices (600 pair, 2 wires per pair, 2 splice > points) and get all of them right. At least he's not doing it down in a > manhole. > > Over at the left you can see four 50-pair "restoral boards" that are the > first phase of a big splice. I'm guessing he's working on the restoral > boards at the other ends of those patch lines. > > When I was learning how to do cable splicing I did a couple of 50-pair > splices while sitting at a workbench under good light. I needed days to > recover. 600-pair outdoor PIC cable weighs about 6 pounds per linear foot, > so you also have to have very strong arms to work with it in the field. > > You've got a lot of skilled people down there in Chocowinity. > > > On 2020-11-24 6:47 pm, RicCarter via LUG wrote: >> My Pictures-A-Week 38 is posted in a gallery at the link. >> https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.11.19.html >> Ric Carter >> www.2020.CartersXRd.net >> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter >> -the world?s mosst careless typist- >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information