At 06:25 AM 2/11/2004, Hulatt, Jon wrote: >I've spent this morning mostly terminating cat5e cable in krone blocks. Mind >numbingly dull, it lead me to wonder why some cables have a cotton or nylon >string in them? The only reason I can see for it is merely to irritate the >user, but maybe there's a real purpose. Can anyone shed any light on it?? If this is a real thin but strong string (thin enough to cut your fingers if you pull on it real hard), it is used to rip the cable jacket so that you can expose long sections of the twisted pairs. Try it: strip off a couple of inches of jacket, find the string, make sure that it is not wrapped around the inner conductors, then pull it straight off to the side. Viola! instant twisted pairs of wires available. dwayne PS - which standard do you crimp your RJ45 connectors to? A or B? dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 20 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2004) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads