LAN and Telecom Cabling I'm Getting Sick and Tired of This

>> That's also an old trick, for when you replace car batteries.

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> For car battery posts you're better off with wheel bearing grease.
> It sort-of seals out the air, and has compounds in it to help
> neutralize acids and stabilize oxidized metals.
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> Try a old trick from my Telco days. After you replace the jack, coat

> connections and the cavity inside of the RJ with Petroleum Jelly, then
> insert a new mounting cord from the telephone. I used to carry a small
> tube in my toolbox for just these situations. The PJ will act as a

> blocking gel, once you stop the moisture your repeat repairs should go

> down. It should not effect the electricals of the telephone circuit.

> the NIDs that servive providers use also have a gell in the jack for

> customer side of the line.

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> Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, th wrote:

> > Back in Jan, Feb and Mar I replace the same jack not once, but twice
> > because it got wet from moisture in the wall, and the contacts

> > so badly that they literally fried themselves to pieces. It rained
> > yesterday, and another RJ-14 jack at a different campus went bad.

> > too, cooked itself to the point where the two middle contacts were

> > black crumbs, the two outer gold plated contacts stayed intact.

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> > I'm getting really tired of this. The first two were Leviton jacks,
> > the
> > last one was a biscuit made by armiger. I guess our digital PBX

> > puts out too much power to each phone. The last time I had this
> > problem was many years ago. Something about things happening in
> > threes..

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> Back in Jan, Feb and Mar I replace the same jack not once, but twice
> because it got wet from moisture in the wall, and the contacts corroded
> so badly that they literally fried themselves to pieces. It rained
> yesterday, and another RJ-14 jack at a different campus went bad. It,
> too, cooked itself to the point where the two middle contacts were just
> black crumbs, the two outer gold plated contacts stayed intact.
>
> I'm getting really tired of this. The first two were Leviton jacks, the
> last one was a biscuit made by armiger. I guess our digital PBX just
> puts out too much power to each phone. The last time I had this
> problem was many years ago. Something about things happening in threes..
>
>

> Back in Jan, Feb and Mar I replace the same jack not once, but twice
> because it got wet from moisture in the wall, and the contacts corroded
> so badly that they literally fried themselves to pieces. It rained
> yesterday, and another RJ-14 jack at a different campus went bad. It,
> too, cooked itself to the point where the two middle contacts were just
> black crumbs, the two outer gold plated contacts stayed intact.

> I'm getting really tired of this. The first two were Leviton jacks,
> the
> last one was a biscuit made by armiger. I guess our digital PBX just
> puts out too much power to each phone. The last time I had this
> problem was many years ago. Something about things happening in
> threes..

> --
> @@F@r@o@m@@O@r@a@n@g@e@@C@o@u@n@t@y@,@@C@a@l@,@@w@h@e@r@e@@
> ###Got a Question about ELECTRONICS? Check HERE First:###
> http://users.pandora.be/educypedia/electronics/databank.htm
> My email address is whitelisted. *All* email sent to it
> goes directly to the trash unless you add NOSPAM in the
> Subject: line with other stuff. alondra101 <at> hotmail.com
> Don't be ripped off by the big book dealers. Go to the URL
> that will give you a choice and save you money(up to half).
> http://www.everybookstore.com You'll be glad you did!
> Just when you thought you had all this figured out, the gov't
> changed it: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
> @@t@h@e@@a@f@f@l@u@e@n@t@@m@e@e@t@@t@h@e@@E@f@f@l@u@e@n@t@@