On 7/30/15 10:14 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:41:09 -0400, J Burns
wrote:
But it's easier to use a normal jack and put the junction in a ziploc
bag. That's what I did, but the bag fell apart after 8 or 10 years, and
I found an inch of water in the bottom of it yesterday (though when I
snapped the cover off the jack box, it was dry inside. But probably
humid.) This time, even with the gold, I'll use a new ziploc bag and
some tape around the opening I have to have.
Drip loops help where a cable is exposed to rain. If the jack is
protected from rain, and all cables go downward from the jack and plug,
no rainwater will reach it. All you have to worry about is condensation.
Even if you used no grease or spray stuff, condensation might not
happen enough to cause a problem.
The front of the house where the jack is is about 14 inches higher than
the back, and the NID, the phone company junction box, is about 8 inches
higher yet, and the wire I have running out of that is no lower. The
in-house wiring failed somewhere 10 or 15 years ago and I can't find the
problem***, plus I decided I wanted the wiring to go straight to the DSL
modem. Prior to the failure, it went to the basement (and to all the
wired phones) including to the kitchen and the kitchen phone, to the
upstairs bedroom, to the DSL modem. I wanted the telephones last, not
even in parallel but after the modem, and even now that I have only one
phone, a base station for 3 wireless extensions.,by running my this
wire, I want that and I've got that.
*** Besides the jacks in 3 rooms that the house came with, I installed
6 more jacks, including one for a handset in the bathroom, with a ringer
behind the wall plate, a switch to turn off the ringer, and a neon light
to work if the ringer is off, and a switch to answer the phone with.
I looked for quite a while, testing, disconnecting, connecting, then
gave up for a year and used my outside wiring, then I determined again
to fix it, but when I went back to the house wiring it was working fine,
but for only two months. Then it failed again and I looked for the
problem again, and after that the DSL advantage made me give up on the
house wiring..
If a cable goes straight to the modem, it's probably best to put your
filters near the NID.
A phone cord with a mod plug could make troubleshooting easy. Cut it and
short the conductors with a wire nut, for example.
Unplug your phones and disconnect your house wiring at the NID. Clip an
ohmmeter to the leads to be sure it's infinite ohms, no short. Then put
your shorted plug into each jack to be sure you have something close to
zero ohms from the NID leads.
where can this liquid gold stuff be purchased.? ihave a machine that
i service it would be useful.
http://www.scottsliquidgold.com/scotts-liquid-gold/
I'm glad Tony recommended it. It's a lot cheaper than DeoxIT.
Me too. I have a new girlfriend and I'm going to try to make her some
gold jewelry with this stuff. I'm sure she'll be impressed.
My girl will be impressed when I give her a jug of liquid gold to
fertilize her house plants.