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Hello everyone,
I have a phone extension cord pulled from one side of a room to another one
(around the room, under the carpet). The thing is that the extension cord is
way too long, which results in big bundle of unused cable at the "output"
location. I'd like to cut the cable down, and re-attach a new phone plug
onto the new end. My y question is - is there a way of attaching a plug onto
the cable without that special "crimping" tool. I don't really feel like
buying this tool just to do a one time job (I will if I need to) but thought
that perhaps there's another way of doing this. I'd greatly appreciate any
information or advice. Thank you in advance.

Don't bother trying to install a new plug; cut off about a foot of
cable with the old plug, cut down the remaining cable to the
length you want, then splice the individual wires of the remaining
cable with the 1 foot pigtail of the original plug.

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Larry Wasserman Baltimore, Maryland