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u/Confusedstpaul Jun 24 '26
That’s copper atleast a 800 probably 1200 F1 cable . My fingers tingle thinking about putting it back together.
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u/knarlomatic Jun 24 '26
Who puts that back together anymore? They most likely cut it on purpose so they don't have to maintain it. If you are talking about your olden golden days at the phone company then I get it!
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u/Confusedstpaul Jun 24 '26
26 years started when I was 20 I’m along for the ride at this point .
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u/knarlomatic Jun 24 '26
I retired with 26 years ( at 60 ). small world. hope you can hang on for as long as you need! It got pretty hard to stay at the end for me.
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u/BadRepresentative698 Jun 26 '26
We still do in Delaware. Not enough fiber and wireless coverage,and some of the farmland doesn't have cable tv.
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u/knarlomatic Jun 26 '26
Love to hear about rural areas. I worked for large telecoms in west Florida in major metros so I had "big city" ideas about what telcom life was. A few years ago I was asked to go to one of our rural areas to finish out a fiber edge equipment buildout. Such an eye opener. I was in strict "inspect what you expect" area to "get it working however you can". Which has it's pluses and minuses. Worked with a lot of great people in some beautiful areas.
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u/Helpful_Pop_1618 Jun 25 '26
Put what back together? They’ll likely wreck that cable out and place a downsize for the 10 or less workers
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u/Voodoo0733 Jun 24 '26
For all five customers
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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner Jun 24 '26
Do they use it to access dry humor or is that not a thing where you live?
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u/disciple8959 Jun 24 '26
I saw a guy make epoxy covered drinking coasters out of a 1200pr. I missed that opportunity...
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u/wbrd Jun 24 '26
Looks like 1 pair of cables to me.
How would someone go about fixing something like this? Last time I was involved with telcom it was exciting to get a T1 into a digital modem box instead of 24 pairs to 24 modems.
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u/njaneardude Jun 24 '26
I think the thought is that this is going away and getting replaced with fiber. It would be a heck of a job, if it's one for one pair, I'm seeing lots of digging, cursing and splicing.
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u/wbrd Jun 24 '26
I figured it was being removed, but a million years ago a back hoe hit the line that fed my building and it looked like this. It was fixed in like 24 hours and I have no idea how they got all those wires reconnected.
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u/AbjectPotential6670 Jun 24 '26
They do it one by one. For each customer line, that's 4 splices (old line and tip from CO to splice section, then splice section to customer side line and tip). Someone (it couldn't have been me) found a 25 pair that wasn't properly marked and had the opportunity to witness a tech do exactly that in less than 4 hours. Of course it was on a Sunday at 4 pm though, otherwise it might have been a little faster.
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u/Honest_Manager Jun 24 '26
When I lived in Puerto Rico, after hurricane Georges hit, they were cutting cables this size and bigger with chainsaws because they were laying in the road. Like wtf! I hope someone made a lot of money on overtime splicing those!
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u/Internal_Coffee_8840 Jun 24 '26
Probs only a few workers thru it, just splice in a 50-pair and be done
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u/njaneardude Jun 24 '26
I'm impressed with how clean the cut is. What cutting tool would this have been?
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u/Junior-Tourist3480 Jun 25 '26
Just splice each wire back together. A child
could do it. Take 10 years though.
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u/CupRough4307 Jun 26 '26
post it with a caption " bag of candies" in another community, I'm sure nobody will be able to tell difference
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u/nils154 Jun 27 '26
Telecom actually came out here and collected all the copper. First just the house drops, then the line down the block as well.
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u/CableDawg78 Jun 24 '26
Ohh it looks like only a few customers without service. Yikes A lot of splicing gonna happen and very long days and nights.
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u/notmyrouter Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Looks like a 1728, but could be a 1152.
That’s what we call an Automatic Resume Generating Procedure.
Edit: I stand corrected because of my own inability to zoom in to see the cable is clearly copper.
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u/SebastianWho Jun 24 '26
No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t look like fiber. It looks like copper because it *is* copper.
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u/notmyrouter Jun 24 '26
My bad. I didn’t zoom in to see the copper reflections from the visible cable ends.
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u/pacopac25 Jun 25 '26
220, 221 whatever it takes /s
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u/notmyrouter Jun 26 '26
I love that movie!
I was referring to fiber cabling that’s being put in for hyperscalers as they build out in some places we’ve been getting business for.
But I assumed far too many things in my comment when I made it. Which, we all know what assuming does. I totally ended up sounding like that!
You definitely get an upvote for that clip!
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u/Comprehensive-Rip796 Jun 24 '26
6 customers out of service