telephone cable

[roseyweb]

There an easy fix if you cut them you can twist the cables back together and a little insulation tape. If you pull them away from the buildings if the little clips come loose a little bailer twine around the drain pipe fixes good as new. Just don't try the same technique when you come across a HI-V power line

[jojam]

As said before just take it down if it's a small 4 core wire.Disconnect it at the white box,take note of the colours before you cut it,you usually only need to cut 2.The 3 off white wires don't carry any current they're just for strengthening.I take them down quite often,i was given the proper crimp connections by a BT engineer:sneaky2:.But thats ok if it's your clients supply your taking down it's gets a bit tricky when it's the neighbours.If its the heavy duty armoured cable you've got there forget it,just work round it,they take alot more to break.We got a price from BT to lower a 100m ish span off heavy duty cable and put it back up again,3 men and a winch needed.£1000!we took the trees down the hard way!

[difflock]

Tsk Tsk

BT talk about "pairs" being any white wire paired with any coloured wire.

afaik one only needs two wires, the other "pairs" in a 3 pair /5 pair /7 pair cable are basically spares or reserves to be used for additional suscribers/ or switched to if the two in use develop a fault.

Seeing as I wired in our caravan in 16 year ago, roll of cable being dumped off by the BT engineer, then switched the supply to the house when appropriate, then ploughed the cable up and had to solder/ fix myself, cos BT were going to charge £300.00 ish.

Cheers

M

[djbobbins]

And this relevant how?

 

Relevant for phoning or emailing you for ever more offering you some kind of "wonderful" deal on phone or internet access.

 

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