What else could they do with it? Have you ever worked at a facility with layer after layer of abandoned cables, covered by what was in use? I've pulled miles of wire from sets of racks 20 feet apart where equipment was changed, and the physical plant wasn't properly maintained. I refuse to leave any abandoned wire in place, if it is possible to remove it.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
At least they had the forethought to put in the new cable trays so the new cable wasn't (usually... 8-) ) laid over the old cable. Of course, everytime they took out a section of the old cable tray, they took SOMETHING down with it!
Charlie
You were lucky! A military TV station i rebuilt had a homemade cable tray screwed to the ceiling. It was made from scraps of used packing crates. The way it was hung meant that you had to pull everything that was laced out of one end. I recabled the entire station wile I was on the air. At one point I had a piece of coax run from the film chain camera, looped through channel "B" of the master video monitor, and then fed into the transmitter's video input while I pulled out a six inch bundle of coax and audio cables. Every addition had been laced to the previous bundle, till I finally got down to the two control cables for the studio cameras. It took three days to clean everything up, and I had to do it while the station mangler (manager) was on leave. It was fun doing live newscasts with the "Talent" tripping over bundles of wire. ;-)
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
I did contract A/V repair for three school districts years ago. One of the smaller systems let me do anything, as long as I left a note for their head of maintenance so he could inspect the work. It was a year before I saw him again. I asked how he liked my work. He shrugged and said, the first one was perfect, so I didn't check any of the other jobs.
-- Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to prove it. Member of DAV #85. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida
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