mark wolfe wrote: > Karl Cunningham wrote: >> Here's what I do... >> >> Grab the last 3 feet or so of cable and slide your hand along it to >> stretch the outer jacket 1/2" or so beyond the end of the conductors. >> Cut the jacket flush with the conductors, and when you let go it will >> slide back to expose the conductors. Then grab the conductors and >> push the jacket back the other way to expose more of the conductors. >> Cut the conductors back a bit so if you let go the jacket would slide >> back over them, but don't let it. When you're ready crimp it, the >> jacket will have a tendency to easily slide into the back end of the >> connector and be crimped rather than to pull back from it. >> >> With a little practice this works nearly as fast as using a knife-type >> stripper, and you never have to worry about nicking the conductors. >> >> Karl >> >> > > Get the Harris punch down tool. The Palidan(sp) or whatever has a > crappy blade that dulls quick. You don't crimp RJ45 connectors on to > the ends of cables when your doing an install. You put a patch panel > in the rack, and you use a jack plate in the wall. If you really want a > nice installation, you get a patch panel for your switch too. Then you > punch down one end of the cable to the switch panel, and the other end > has an RJ45 that goes on the switch. The cabling coming from the > building terminates in a patch panel above the switch patch panel, then > you run little 1 foot long jumpers, and your rack looks CLEAN, vs > jumpering the building patch panel to the switch with multiple 3ft plus > long patch cables. >
Got any snapshots of this good stuff? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
