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Subject: [motm] Re: Hook up wire

From: Scott Juskiw <scott@...>
Date: 2003-10-07

At 9:22 PM +0000 2003/10/06, osthelder wrote:
> > I know folks like to dig wire out of dumpsters of salvage telephone
>wire found on the side of the
>> road. Not me.
>>
>> Paul S.
>
>Me neither- I get mine from buildings that are going to be
>demolished. That way you know it's dry and clean. Belden 22awg by
>any other source is still Belden 22awg. Most of the time, if you
>have your own safety shoes, glasses and hardhat, the other
>construction workers won't even notice you...
>

Me too. I picked up a 50 foot trunk line of 22 gauge twisted pairs
from a university building I was working in. I've been picking away
at it for 10 years.