[Leica] RicC PAW 38

[RicCarter]

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
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