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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Service Entrance Cable -- Repair Insulation?

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:24:19 -0400, micky
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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.


When the electric company wanted to add a pole on the street in front
of my house, they called DigSafe and had it marked. Yep, they drilled
with a big auger and took out half my sewer line. I sent them the
$3200 repair bill. Plus, they had two trucks and crew out here during
the digging to support the new pole.