[Leica] RicC PAW 38

[Brian Reid]

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
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