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[cablewithaview]

Being a QC guy, I find all kinds of crap in a day, well here is a few, enjoy.

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[System Tech Senior]

What the hell is all that gold in the 4th pic?? That's some ugly ass connectors! Who left them aftermarket splitters in there.. I'd kick a BBT's ass over that!

[olo131]

What do you do when you don't have a crossover clamp you make one!!! My stuff is is the top strand this is a competitors strand

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[System Tech Senior]

That your competitors power supply hanging there?

[cablewithaview]

What the hell is all that gold in the 4th pic?? That's some ugly ass connectors! Who left them aftermarket splitters in there.. I'd kick a BBT's ass over that!

That is a 450 in line drop EQ. TCI at one time required those to be installed.

[System Tech Senior]

Not in this day though! Was someone at that house recently and left it?

[cablewithaview]

Not in this day though! Was someone at that house recently and left it?

I found this when I went out on a trouble call, changed it out to the vertical splitters and a nice pretty RG11 drop to boot.

[System Tech Senior]

There ya go! I don't let my BBT's run rg-6. They can't even have it on the truck. They're allowed in house rg-6 only. If they run a drop it's rg-11. from 10 to 200 feet it's rg-11.

[olo131]

That your competitors power supply hanging there?

Yep.... Alpha but that is all I know

[System Tech Senior]

Probably and XM2.. Pretty good PS!

[olo131]

OK..... how about when the guys putting in you fiber for FTTH don't leave you enough fiber in the peds to prep

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[System Tech Senior]

Need 6 ft to prep!

[Dak]

What do you do when you don't have a crossover clamp you make one!!! My stuff is is the top strand this is a competitors strand

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. These are still the wrong clamps anyway. In this instance the clamps are on the preform splices. Usually a big The clamps should have been for 5/16 or bigger strand so they would fit properly. A normal crossover clamp would be too small. We were actually required to use two bitch clamps on a job back in the 90's. We had about 4" X 5.8" stove type bolts that we used, with 2 round washers in between. You stuck them in from the bottom, and you made sure that the lady bolts were faced up so that they didn't rub on the cable. Also had to use a square nut with locking nut to make sure the clamps stayed secure. Topped it off with a rubber cap, but it only took about a year for those to pop off!
These folks did about everything wrong. I looks like they either used a piece of re-rod and cut it off, or cut off the shank of a regular bolt. The lady bolts point down. This is a cable ripper and hand ripper for sure!

Some kids.....

Dak

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[System Tech Senior]

Why don't they just re frame the new pole and splice the cable so it will be right. Or get the right equipment to do it the wrong way right lol.

[Dak]

Being a QC guy, I find all kinds of crap in a day, well here is a few, enjoy.

Ok, How about you get a call to wire in a new HITS Quantum system, and by the way they think they might need a little rewiring done while you are there!

Dak

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[System Tech Senior]

Being a QC guy, I find all kinds of crap in a day, well here is a few, enjoy.

Ok, How about you get a call to wire in a new HITS Quantum system, and by the way they think they might need a little rewiring done while you are there!

Dak

Good lord!

[olo131]

What do you do when you don't have a crossover clamp you make one!!! My stuff is is the top strand this is a competitors strand

Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. These are still the wrong clamps anyway. In this instance the clamps are on the preform splices. Usually a big The clamps should have been for 5/16 or bigger strand so they would fit properly. A normal crossover clamp would be too small. We were actually required to use two bitch clamps on a job back in the 90's. We had about 4" X 5.8" stove type bolts that we used, with 2 round washers in between. You stuck them in from the bottom, and you made sure that the lady bolts were faced up so that they didn't rub on the cable. Also had to use a square nut with locking nut to make sure the clamps stayed secure. Topped it off with a rubber cap, but it only took about a year for those to pop off!
These folks did about everything wrong. I looks like they either used a piece of re-rod and cut it off, or cut off the shank of a regular bolt. The lady bolts point down. This is a cable ripper and hand ripper for sure!

Some kids.....

Dak

See I knew if there was one person who could understand how wrong this was it was you Dak the only reason they didn't frame in the pole was Bell ran two stands that wasn't there when the pole Xfer was done and the my competitor took forever to do their Xfer...... like 2 years so they lost their space to Bell.

It's Dog eat dog here

[olo131]

Being a QC guy, I find all kinds of crap in a day, well here is a few, enjoy.

Ok, How about you get a call to wire in a new HITS Quantum system, and by the way they think they might need a little rewiring done while you are there!

Dak

Had to help remove a add insertion rack in one night and add a new one in its place what a way to spend new years eve 2006

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[Forbins]

i like this post, gonna have to start taking some pics :)

[lashdawg]

This is what happens when you have a fiber crew go out to put up coax for a day.

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