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Chat => Tech Chat => Topic started by: renluop on May 31, 2015, 07:12:59 PM
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Down the road from us a hole has appeared in the grass verge roughly half way to our cabinet. It'sbeen there nearly a week. Here's a pic of what's down it. (And no! the hole is not designer made. The original is oblong. ;D).
Any ideas what the things down it are; telephonic?
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My initial thought (until I noticed the diameter of the cable) was that it was a LV* supply for, say a street light. No, definitely not. :no:
But you must take first prize as, yes, that is a telephony cable. I can see bits of old salt-glazed earthenware duct. However do I wonder about the thick "up-sticky" cable end. Possibly lead sheathed? (I won't as you to put your finger on the end to see if it still connected somewhere . . . ::) )
* Apparently the standard domestic mains voltage is classified as low voltage, hence LV, above.
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then the question changes to, "que faisent les membres de la tribu de mouton noir"?
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The Babel-fish currently residing in my left ear muttered "that being the members of the tribe of black sheep?"
Perhaps Black Sheep will be able to enlighten us? :-\
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Yesterday morning 9.45 the hole was capped. I reckon it was due to a routine repair of something like a battery fault. The number of openings and cappings seems to be increasing, I reckon no doubt to BT's crumbling infrastructire, or may be it's them dammed rabbits! :D Must be could forconcrete slab makers too! ::)
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There's another on same side of road <50 feet from the one in OP. This time the big black thing is facing in opposite direction. Intriguing! Is it just that everything BT is decaying on my estate?
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If there is a cable directly buried in the ground, without any armouring (as it appears in the image, above), then I'm not surprised that it has had numerous repairs! ;D
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Unlike when my son's house was built ca. 1964, the cable was protected, as I was told a few years back by an engineer repairing my line for a battery fault, for a time later on (my house is 1971) the cables were laid direct in ground. I recall him saying most pairs were pretty shot, and I was lucky to have a good pair* once he'd done the repair.
* and no I wasn't in drag ;D