RE: Terminating Cable WAS ... Re: Sky+ at node zero

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

I have stripped cable that way in past but not any longer.

Apart from numerous occasions when I have got bits of insulation stuck in
my
teeth, the final persuasion not to do it was when I stripped the end of a
bit of telephone cable.....

.... then found out it was connected to the telephone line !!!!!

If you thought a 9V battery gave your tounge a bit of a tickle, try 50V
:-(((

I was also unimpressed by a piece of bell wire I cut through once. I
thought
it was the other end of a speaker cable I was tracing especially as it just
had a chocolate block connector on the end. As I chopped through it and saw
the end of my cutters disappear in a flash and bang I realised it was
connected to mains somewhere. Never did find where, and although it blew a
fuse somewhere, nothing else seemed to stop working. Ah, the
"joys" of
trying to unravel someone elses bodged wiring attempts.

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 05 July 2003 17:53
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Terminating Cable WAS ...[ukha_d] Re: Sky+ at node zero
>
>
>
> > Another tip, when you strip the sheath from a Cat5 core
> don't use side
> > cutters or anything sharp as the slightest nick will weaken
> the cable and
> > allow it to snap, use your front teeth it works a treat
> plus you don't lay
> > them down and loose them.
>
> The last time I went to the dentist - I don't go often coz I
> don't like the
> buggers - he gave me a checkup and made a couple of "hmmm"
> noises before
> asking me if I could think of any reason why I have a couple of
> semi-circular grooves in my two front teeth...
>
> ;-)
>
> Phil
>