On 1 Nov 2016 04:11:03 GMT
"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

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The fun ones were more recent ones which had all the wires
embedded in clear silicone grease -- really messy to handle.

Icky-pick, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icky-pick

I was a two-way radio tech. The phone techs I had to work with had
their own vocabulary or rather slang. Icky-pick was one of them. Along
with dry pair, short, boot, tip, ring... always a lot of fun trying to
communicate back in forth in our individual terms ;-)

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Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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