Can't throw me off the scent

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I do cable a lot for my work. I have probably a mile of cat 6 at this point. I do fiber too, and yes I want a big chunk of undersea cable to make art with.

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Honestly we just throw chunks of fiber away. For our purposes, if it's over 320 feet it's going to be copper anyway. I made the mistake one time of underestimating the amount of fiber I'd need and cost my company a lot of money. Now I always over order and the extra goes in the trash because it's worthless. Next time you see guys doing fiber they might just have some scrap fiber to give you.

A few weeks ago I had a guy come up to me and jokingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line. I was feeling generous and gave him an unopened 1000ft box of cat6. Don't tell my boss!

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I'm not who you responded to but my answer is all the time due to my job.

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Old joke:

Don't hang out with methheads.

A crackhead will steal your wallet.

A methhead will steal your wallet then help you look for it.

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>Monster Magnet

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TBF they do have a large gauge wire in them

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If you live in the UK I'll send you some. 864f OK?

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Crackhead gonna crackhead.

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864f

Aww, that's awesome—you're awesome! And that's a wicked-looking cable. Sadly, I'm in the US.

It made me ponder, though. It looks like several different product manufacturers sell affordable samples of some of the larger cables.

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kingly say hey you should give me some of that copper line.

Haa! that's great. Imagine trying to harvest those 22g strande from the TP

I hit an auction for an electrician that went out of business, I got a bunch of remnant boxes for different coax for around $10. They all had between 100 and 500ft left. Most of it's just RG8 but there's some strange dual cable sat line in there that's almost decent. I do a little home networking so I have a few hundred feet of cat 6. on hand and prob a half spool of cat5 that I'll never use. And I have.

Mostly I want the big stuff because I see it but never actually get to touch it. It's like I'd probably want a mainframe if I hadn't spent plenty of time screwing with one.

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Ask the f'n Russians and Chinese, they might have a huge ass bundle hanging off an anchor.

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ROFL, I'm certain of it!

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Might as well scrap that 5 if you've got enough 6. They melt it away to conserve the copper. You might get some decent money. I'm typing with gloves because I'm about to go do ice breaker and snow for the hood. Good luck!

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Yeah I hear those dirty Sanchez's stick around

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Well, except that it's nearly always super damaging.

The US version would be more like collecting cans back when they had a 5 or 10 cent deposit. Today I can't really think of anything like that. Maybe driving Uber/Lyft. Or just panhandling/begging.

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The blast resistant stuff is pretty neat too. I just hate dealing with the gel/icky-pick when you have to terminate the cable.

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I used to absolutely love putting vampire taps on thicknet.

Okay, now we're going to put an AUI connector right here. First you're going to need this drill, to drill a hole into the cable... Wait what?

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You speak the language of the elders. I started with cat6, everything before that is Greek to me lol.

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I meant induce so much unwanted voltage that the voltage regulators can't even handle, killing all electrical supplies

As some pointed out, 10¹⁰ T is too much, I think 10 T will do

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I didn't remember the scale, I just picked a number from my head