Telephone equipment tools

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Load them with different small parts you might need quickly, like screws, anchors, fuses etc. Snap them on your belt loop, tool belt, or our Butt-Set Belt Clip :.

Installers and Repairmen have been using these for years. It keeps small parts organized by type of part, type of job, type of tool, or just a handy small pouch to carry tools in. We finally found a Screw Bag that meets our quality standards We've been out of stock on these for years.

The ones we've found until now were really junk. This is a great Screw Bag at a great price! Yellow Spudger. All of our Spudgers have a bent metal hook on one end. The other side is a blunt end. Black Spudger. Red Spudger. This Spudger is smooth , and the blunt end doesn't have the hook shape.

The Metal Hook has a sharpened point. Metal Pocket Clip for Spudger. The Metal Pocket Clip will slide on to any of our Spudgers without a molded pocket clip, and will also fit most pencils and stick pens. White Spudger with Pocket Clip and Cap. This Spudger is smooth , the blunt end doesn't have the hook shape, and the pocket clip is molded in. Rotary Dial Spudger. The straight end is used to release the plastic fingerwheel from a rotary dial. Special abrasive on the Blade removes oxidation without removing metal from the contacts.

Use it to unstick dial buttons on phones and other electronic equipment by spraying a little Lemon Tape and Label Remover , Telephone Polish or WD on the blade, and then working it between the button and housing to remove sticky stuff that's been spilled on the button. Single Burnishing Tool in Slip Case. Fits over the pins on a standard 66M Block won't fit on a 66B Block , and brings the pins out to a 2 Pin Modular Jack so you can use any two wire Modular Tester or phone.

It's not CAT5 rated. There is a row of sockets designed to accept the pins on a 66M Block along one side, and another row of sockets designed to accept the pins on a 66B Block on another side. Both rows of sockets are wired B to the Modular Jack on the Adapter. This Adapter only clips onto a C-Clip that has no wires punched down on it.

The Impedance Bridge tells you how many watts the speakers draw, on both 25 and 70V speaker lines. Simply turn it on, connect it to the speakers line not to the amplifier! It also puts a tone over the speakers without the amplifier connected , which makes finding a bad speaker quicker. The Impedance Bridge lets you adjust the speaker and horn taps to match what the amplifier can put out. That's useful in a new installation where the speaker could actually use more watts than it says, but critical when you're repairing a system that's blowing the fuse or circuit breaker in the amplifier or blowing up the amplifier itself!

Amplifiers often sound distorted for a while when they're overloaded, before they blow up. Disconnect the Speakers from the Amplifier. Read the speaker line to see how many watts the speakers use don't connect it to the amplifier! If the speakers use watts, and you've got a watt Amplifier, you've got a problem!

Find the 8 Ohm Speaker someone installed an 8 Ohm speaker without a matching transformer sucks up all the juice that's supposed to go to the other speakers.

Find the bad speaker or matching transformer. Turn some taps on the speakers down to get well below the watts. Put in a new, bigger or second Amplifier split the speaker runs between two amps.

Now with Over-Voltage Protection Won't Blow Up if you put it on a live speaker line! Static on a Phone Line can be Fixed or Prevented! Because a telephone line always has DC voltage on it, with AC audio riding on top of it, if there's a bad connection of any kind anywhere along the line you'll hear static. Connections on a phone line have to be perfect! Just twisting two wires together may look like a good connection, but oxidation eventually develops on the surface of the wires where they're touching each other, which adds resistance to the connection.

On a telephone line with DC voltage, you'll hear that resistance as static. It wasn't that long ago that phone men were soldering wires together! The first splices to telephone wires were done with a big soldering iron that was heated with a gas torch it wasn't electric. Why did the phone men go through all that effort to solder the wires instead of just twisting them together?

Because they had to avoid static , and that was the only way to do it. Maybe you twisted the wires together on your stereo speakers, and they work fine? There's no static. That's because there's no DC coming out of an amplifier going to speakers. It's strictly AC audio. When the oxidation develops on the speaker wires that you twisted together, the resistance that eventually develops from the oxidation makes the speaker volume sound a little lower - so you just turn up the volume on the stereo.

Since there's no DC, there's no static on the speakers. Likewise, you can use wirenuts on VAC or speaker lines, but they're eventually going to cause static if you use them on a telephone line. On a telephone line, you can also get static from a short from one or both sides of the line to a foreign voltage or ground. The foreign voltage or ground may be because water has invaded the cable.

Water conducts electricity, and is shorting the telephone line to conductors in another pair s , or to earth. The static may also be caused by a nick in the insulation, shorting the bare copper wire to other conductors or earth ground.

Intermittent static is often caused by aerial lines that have nicks in the insulation. When they swing in the wind, the bare copper wire shorts to other conductors or pole hardware. These are called Swingers. While you may be able to tape up a wire with a nick in the insulation to prevent it from shorting, in the telephone business it's more common to cut out the bad piece of cable, and splice the ends together, or splice a good piece in if the cable wouldn't be long enough.

If it's a buried cable, you need to use gel filled waterproof splices, and put the whole splice in a Waterproof Splice Enclosure , which keeps water from getting into the cable from the open ends where the jacket has been cut. No matter how much tape you use, it won't be enough to prevent water from eventually seeping into that splice! Use a Splice Enclosure. Insulation Displacement Connectors are simply squeezed onto a wire. They have a little slit that cuts into the insulation displaces it and slices into the copper wire as it's pushed into it.

There was actually one type of splice connector that came out before IDC connectors. The Beanie or B-Wire Connector was the splice of choice at all of the phone companies for many years. The Beanie is just a little metal tube that's big enough to stick about three 24 gauge telephone wires into, with a vinyl insulating jacket. The Gas Tight Connection is the secret of making a good splice. When the metal in the splice is pushed into the wire so tightly that no air can get to where the metals meet, no oxidation can occur - and you'll never get static from that splice.

A pin sticking into a copper wire won't give you a Gas Tight Connection. That pin would be sitting on-top of the solid copper wire, and a layer of oxidation would eventually form unless there was constant hard pressure on the pin.

The Gas Tight Connection is formed when the material used in the splice actually slices into the sides of the copper. The pressure created by the small U shaped slot, that the wire is forced into, creates the Gas Tight Connection. If you hear static at the Phone Company demarc, with the pair to the premise open, the Phone Company will have to fix the static.

The only way to get rid of static is to repair the bad connection. There are no filters that will get rid of static, since by the time you hear it - it's just audio. If you filter out enough of the audio spectrum to get rid of the static, you'll also get rid of the speech! Splices up to three 24 Gauge Telephone Wires Together. Just stick the wires into the Beanie, and squeeze it with a Pliers or the heel of a set of Dikes.

The inside of the Beanie is full of little sharp points that go right through the insulation when it's squeezed, and slice into the wire , creating a Gas Tight Connection. B-Wire Connectors aren't used by phone companies any more they use UY and UR connectors , because they couldn't stop phone men from stripping the jacket off the wire before putting it into the Beanie. Stripping the wire isn't bad if it's done with the correct stripper like the notch in a phone man's scissors, long nose or dikes , but a lot of the phone men just squeezed the wire in the blade of the Dikes, and pulled the insulation off.

That creates a little notch in the copper wire where they squeezed the dikes on the wire. Once the notch is in the wire, it's very easy to break the wire right at the notch, after it's moved a few times. That left lots of cases of dead phone lines, just because the phone man didn't do his job properly.

B-Wire Connectors are made to be used on solid copper telephone wire, which has a very thin insulation. There's no need to strip the wire, although it won't cause any problems if you strip it properly. You can use B-Wire Connectors on other types of small gauge wire, both solid and stranded, but you'll have to strip the heavier insulation off of those wires because the little teeth in the Beanies won't be long enough to pierce the insulation. Probably because they're cheaper, and give me a little more flexibility they take 2 or 3 wires.

I have gotten four wires in a Beanie by stripping the insulation, but I don't think it's a good idea. On a historical note, in the old days Beanies were available taped together on reels. The splicer would feed these into a breadbox sized metal box, which used compressed air to crimp the Beanie , when he stuck the wires in and stepped on a foot operated switch.

If it's squeezed too hard, it will bend over the sharp points, and they won't slice into the wire correctly. Same as our PLAIN Beanies above , but with a small amount of waterproofing gel inside to protect the splice from water.

Because a small amount of the gel is squeezed out of the Beanie when you crimp it, these are kind of messy to use. UY Connector Splice Box of UY Connectors are made to be used on solid copper 22 to 24 gauge telephone wire, which has a very thin insulation. Do NOT strip the wires! UY Connectors are filled with a small amount of waterproofing gel.

Same as the regular UY Connectors above , but 16 to a Cartridge. Box of UR Connector Splice Box of There are three holes on the UR Connectors. You can use all three, or just splice two wires together, leaving one empty. UR Connectors are made to be used on solid copper 22 to 24 gauge telephone wire, which has a very thin insulation. UR Connectors are filled with a small amount of waterproofing gel. Same as the regular UR Connectors above , but 10 to a Cartridge.

UG Connector Tap Box of There's no need to cut the second wire! Just stick the wire that you're tapping off of that you don't want to cut into the slot on the side of the UG Connector. There is one hole and one slot on the UG Connector. You can use the UG Connector as a splice by putting one cut wire into the slot so it sticks out past the end of the UG , and the other into the hole. UG Connectors are made to be used on solid copper 22 to 24 gauge telephone wire, which has a very thin insulation.

UG Connectors are filled with a small amount of waterproofing gel. About the same size as a regular Long Nose Pliers. Has good adhesive. Not as good as 3M, but better than most economy tapes. Great for taping cables to the fish!

Has very good adhesive. Has very good adhesive! Just Tag It! Bundle of 50 Orange Tags with String. Just like the Phone Company Issues! Tagging your work lets the next repairman know what the previous guy did. This is the easiest way to cut and strip wire to the correct length with one squeeze of the handles, and a pull on the wire!

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