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Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 16, 2009, 08:08:36 pm ---I only partially disagree about the AV boxes. Functionally, they're useless

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The wall box eliminators?  Useless?  Wait'll you have to run 200 cables in an office and tell me how useless they are. :)

Expressline99:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 16, 2009, 08:08:36 pm ---
You mean the fire stop? You'll need something like a flexible drill extension to punch through the fire stop. I'm still pissed off that one of my ex-employees tossed a sectional 30' one. That ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- is expensive  :angry:

Darn it! Ed described the process better than I could. I only partially disagree about the AV boxes. Functionally, they're useless but cosmetically I find wires coming out of random holes in the wall irritating as hell. Pissed me off when the cable guy threaded 12' of cable into the living room and didn't even bother A) putting it in a decent place and B) putting some sort of plug to prevent bugs and water from coming in.

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Well, I knew about the flex bit...but that's getting too involved I think for the original posting.... I put in low voltage old/new boxes for everything with modular connectors... But I make my own cables for TV/cat 5 as needed. Nice and clean. I did data wiring for a living a few years back mostly commercial but that was easier...metal studs and drop ceilings.


Edit: The Wall box eliminators were all we used in commercial settings...

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on November 16, 2009, 08:43:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 16, 2009, 08:08:36 pm ---I only partially disagree about the AV boxes. Functionally, they're useless

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The wall box eliminators?  Useless?  Wait'll you have to run 200 cables in an office and tell me how useless they are. :)

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Tell that to the ---uvulas--- that keep leaving them off when they run those 200 cables. In any case, I want them for different reasons I guess. Cosmetically, I despise having cabling just dangling there out of a hole in the wall.

Some installers are so bad they'll leave the cabling hanging from the ceiling. Irritates the hell out of me.  :badmood:

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Expressline99 on November 16, 2009, 08:44:26 pm ---Well, I knew about the flex bit...but that's getting too involved I think for the original posting....
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I think they can be rented at places like Home Depot and Lowes. Or if you know someone who is a bit of handy man they'll have one one can use?

I really can't think of any way to get through the fire stop. You can either go through it or go around it.

While it's easier to go outside, then go back through the wall, I never liked how that looks. I do whatever I can to hide the cabling, sometimes I'll hide it behind the rain gutters as I run horizontal or pull the trim and tuck it just behind the wall boards (skin? whatever the outside of a house is called). I even took advantage of tucking a cable parallel a vent during a repair just to keep the cable out of sight. I don't know if my old landlord appreciated that one.  ;D

HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: protokatie on November 16, 2009, 08:23:48 pm ---Actually, I am on a "Star Trek my place up" kick, so I was thinking of these things. Currently, my startrekkie nerdness  is exemplified by a UPS I ordered that doesn't notify the computer that the power is out; so I wrote a batch file that detects whether the power  (or LAN) is out and starts by playing a sample of Margel Barrett saying "Automatic shutdown is in progress" and then does the star trek red-alert klaxxon. After 10 minutes the batch file runs shutdown.exe (unless the power or LAN comes back online) and safely shuts the fileserver down. Yes I AM a dork....

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That's kinda cool.  :)

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