I sold them with the warning, each piece had at least one or two 50 foot sections that had not been 'eaten'. It is fuzzy but I think each section was 200 feet long, the part I remember the most was the weight vs RG8.
We are both old :-) -pete On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Rex <r...@sonic.net> wrote: > Many years back I bought a long coil of the orange cable with N connectors > on it at a flea market. Only when I got home did I notice that vampires had > been gnawing on it in many places :-( > I should have known better and spotted the holes. > > I'm pretty sure I know which box holds my vampire tool and a MAU or two, but > I worked for 3Com starting in 86. > > > > On 7/30/2012 5:02 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: >> >> Weird timing, I was digging through the attic and two weeks ago found >> a box with AMP stinger repair kits, a couple unopened MAUs, >> and at least one said tool or two in the bottom of the box. There use >> to be a few N connectors but I still use them so they ended up in the >> RF connector box. >> >> I use to have a few spools of the cable but one ham radio swap meet >> and they went fast. >> >> One of MAUs is bigger then one of my Linux based single board >> computers with a network jack ! And I bet cost more to buy. >> >> -pete >> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Chuck Harris<cfhar...@erols.com> wrote: >>> >>> Chris Albertson wrote: >>> ... I wonder how many >>> >>>> people here remember the old 10base5 stuff. We used to call it >>>> "Frozen yellow garden hose". It was a perfect description. I think >>>> it was about 1980. And I still remember being astounded when I saw >>>> that a "vampire tap" could work. >>> >>> >>> Or maybe more to the point, I wonder how many of us have installed >>> 10base5 cable, and done vampire taps? I think I still have one of >>> the tools around here somewhere... probably with my G-D wirewrap >>> gun. >>> >>> -Chuck Harris >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.