On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:49:09 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 3/21/2015 10:16 PM, TomR wrote:


Here are the photos of the two damaged areas on the Service Entrance Cable:

http://tinypic.com/r/t7jpd5/8
http://tinypic.com/r/wr10eg/8


Looks like the outer covering is deteriorating. While you can get away
with small patches short term, the rest will be going to crap soon.

I'd consider conduit, but there may be some sort of flexible wrap made
for that.
Check this out.
http://www.conduitrepair.com/product...ctConduit.html

This stuff does look pretty good. Don't forget OP that unless the
conduit bends easily, and I sort of doubt it does, you'll need a bigger
ID than just the OD of your cable, which I think bends a little -- I
can't tell how much -- back and forth as it goes over the clapboard.

I wish I could say I'd tested the silicon tape outdoors. I've used it
outdoors, on my phone line that a neighbor's half-baked contractors cut,
but I buried that and haven't see it for 10 years. Phone and DSL work
fine, however.

When I still had dial-up, one day my computer went out. I go downtairs
and ttwo guys are poking at the ground with a metal rod. I'm in a
townhouse and they're rebuilding a little fence around the front "patio"
and instead they cut one of my phone lines. They want to repair it with
wire nuts!!, but I soldered it and used this silicon tape. When I
called Verizon a couple days later, the woman on the end said they woudl
just use the jelly-filled crimp connectors and it sounded like I did a
better job than they woudl do. Not sure if she's right or not, but
voice and computer worked fine and still does.