Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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