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These have been around forever. Well, not as long as the
ones Moses received, but quite a while.
The Ten Commandments For Technicians:
1) Beware the lightning that lurketh in the un-discharged
capacitor, lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks in a
most untechnician-like manner.
2) Cause thou the switch that supplieth large quantities of juice
to be opened and thusly tagged, that thy day in this earthly vale
of tears may be long.
3) Prove to thyself that all circuits that radiateth and upon which
thou worketh are grounded and thusly tagged lest they lift thee
to radio frequency potential and cause thee to make like a
radiator, too.
4) Tarry not amongst those fools that engageth in intentional
shocks, for they are surely non-believers and are not long for this
world.
5) Take care that thou useth the proper method when thou takes
the measure of a high voltage circuit lest thou incinerate both
thyself and thy meter, for verily, though thou hast no account
number and can be easily surveyed, thy test meter doth have
one and, as a consequence, bringeth much woe unto the supply
department.
6) Take care thou tampereth not with safety devices and
interlocks, for this incureth the wrath of the supervisor and
bringeth the fury of the safety inspector upon thy head and
shoulders.
7) Work thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy
fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console
her in other ways.
8) Service thou not equipment alone, for electrical cooking is a
slothful process and thou might sizzle in thine own fat for hour
upon a hot circuit before thy Maker sees fit to end thy misery.
9) Trifle thou not with radioactive tubes and substances lest thou
commence to glow in the dark like a lightning bug and thy wife
have no further use for thee except thy wages.
10) Thou shall not make unauthorized modifications to
equipment, but causeth thou to be recorded all field changes
and authorized modifications made by thee lest thy successor
tear his hair out and go slowly mad in his attempt to decide what
manner of creature hath made a nest in the wiring of such
equipment.
-Joe, K8MP
I received my new Cat 6 (but can be used with outer Cats) pull-thru plug ends
today and I had a dickens of a time putting one on a cable until I figured it out!
The plugs without the pull-thru need to have the wire cut down to exactly 1/2"
and straightened before they are pushed into the plug.
Good quality cable uses a slightly heavier wire and it's easy to keep the wires
straight as you guide them. Cheaper cable is much more difficult to work with.
The cable in the first picture is one that I bought and one end malfunctioned so
I cut it off thinking I'd put another plug on it some day. The wires are thin and
squirrely. I could not for the life of me keep them straight going into the plug.
And then I thought "What Would Bob Do?"
He would make the wires really long and that made it really easy to place each
one individually into it's respective pass-thru.
The second picture is of my Cat cable arsenal. From left to right is the wire
punch down for jacks, magnifying glass, cable cutter/crimper, tester, wire
nippers, cable jacket remover and needle nose pliers. Next is a cheat sheet I
laminated encase I forgot the wire color order.
Wally
W8WLK