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Soldering/splicing wires sucks
shmokes:
Heh . . . I won't get a pinball machine into the house until I have an actual house with a dedicated play room. That's quite a number of years down the road.
Ed_McCarron:
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--- Quote from: patrickl on September 05, 2008, 01:04:30 pm ---So you still haven't gotten this done?
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No, you heard him. He cut the wires too close.
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I don't actually know what you mean.
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Attempt at funny -- FAILED.
You made the comment:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 05, 2008, 12:29:30 pm ---Seriously, though, I have to be careful about spending. We cut it REALLY close.
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I'll go back to EE now.
shmokes:
Ah ha . . . yeah, it would have taken a psychic to get that joke ;D
shmokes:
Punched down the other side to a jack. Toned everything out and I'm golden. ;D Definitely glad I did it the hard way. It looks great and is super strong. I used 1/16" heat shrink on all the inner wires, and then slid a larger piece over the whole cable, so it still just looks like a single (albeit two-toned) cable. But it's much longer now and has an RJ45 connector and jack in the middle of it.
patrickl:
Lol. Well done.