If you live in the UK I’ll send you some. 864f OK?
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rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I want like 1 ft of carrier bundle fiber optic, because I think it’s cool as shit.
Every time I see one of the spools I want to go up and hack a foot off of it but I wouldn’t want to come off as a tweaker.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 3 months ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
864f
Aww, that’s awesome—you’re awesome! And that’s a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I’m in the US.
It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Links?
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Ak, can’t seem to find them on my phone, there’s still on my computer but I can’t get back to that right now. I went to eBay and search for fiber optic cable and they showed up with giant spools of large cable with $1-$2. In the description below it clarified that they were just samples of the cable for that price and after you ordered the samples you could order more from them.
If you can’t find it I’ll take them back up in the morning and post them here.
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Where the hell are you hanging out, that you regularly run into spools of fiber optic cable? I’ve never seen one in my life!
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
there’s a lot of construction near me, it was all wilderness, now they’re putting in housing developments.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Never heard of these?
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rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
those are boring, i want hunks of cable, undersea cable, backbone cable, local telco.
what can I say, I probably have issues :)
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ask the f’n Russians and Chinese, they might have a huge ass bundle hanging off an anchor.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
ROFL, I’m certain of it!
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I do cable a lot for my work. I have probably a mile of cat 6 at this point. I do fiber too, and yes I want a big chunk of undersea cable to make art with.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Haa! that’s great. Imagine trying to harvest those 22g strande from the TP :)
I hit an auction for an electrician that went out of business, I got a bunch of remnant boxes for different coax for around $10. They all had between 100 and 500ft left. Most of it’s just RG8 but there’s some strange dual cable sat line in there that’s almost decent. I do a little home networking so I have a few hundred feet of cat 6. on hand and prob a half spool of cat5 that I’ll never use. And I have.
Mostly I want the big stuff because I see it but never actually get to touch it. It’s like I’d probably want a mainframe if I hadn’t spent plenty of time screwing with one.
FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The blast resistant stuff is pretty neat too. I just hate dealing with the gel/icky-pick when you have to terminate the cable.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I used to absolutely love putting vampire taps on thicknet.
Okay, now we’re going to put an AUI connector right here. First you’re going to need this drill, to drill a hole into the cable… Wait what?
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, I get you. The artifacts for these you see at museums are impressive. The bigger ones would make some great bookends.
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rumba@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Those are truly amazing. Even the giant honking old stuff on the poles is kinda neat.
could you imagine splicing stuff like this?
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