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Thread #75352   Message #2530181
Posted By: JohnInKansas
02-Jan-09 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Help me fix my computer?
Subject: RE: Tech: Help me fix my computer?
I wasn't ignoring you Stilly, but there seems to be some "regional variation" in tools and terminology for the telephone stuff.

Home Depot here is one of the few places that seems to stock much in the way of phone wiring, but they also don't seem to have the same stuff that the phone company guys use the most. So far as I've seen it's all but impossible to get the terminal blocks/junction boxes of the "push in" kind at retail here, and I've been reluctant to mug one of the grey trucks just to find out what labels are on them all (and too lazy to look up the styles you mentioned).

And all the phone wire in my house is so old I wouldn't be surprised to find a wooden board with Fahnestock clips in the attic.

John