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How are electricity cables taken up on the roofs of tho high apartment buildings? [closed]
Not sure this is the site to ask this question, but here it goes anyway:
The other day I saw an electricity cable hanging in an unusually wide curve. That got my attention and I looked out of the ...
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How do you disconnect a TV cable that runs all along the walls throughout the house?
Is it dangerous to disconnect it by myself, or is the standard protective gloves and shears sufficient?
The cable was installed by Time Warner Cable company, and now we no longer have their service.
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Is it safe to cut and put a compression end on a live cable TV wire?
Just moving into a new US location. The location has both Verizon and Comcast available. I am trying to use Comcast. The Verizon installer appears to have cut the Comcast cable that went to an ...
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Can you crimp a tubular lug without a crimper plier?
I want to use these lugs on my electrical installation, but I can only find pliers for up to 16 mm2 cables and the mains cables are 25 mm2. I found one store that carried pliers able to do up to 50 ...
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Running electrical cable within dry wall
First of all, I'm a beginner.
Secondly, I've a renovation started in the basement (see picture here), so I need some help.
So in the bedroom, there's actually a socket already present just as you ...
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How do I crimp an F-connector onto RG-6 cable?
My current home project is putting RG-6 in the walls instead of through the cold-air returns and across the carpet between rooms. Thanks to some forethought during previous remodeling projects, laying ...
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Does a (non-splitting) cable splitter degrade the signal?
I have cable and cable internet in my new apartment. The cable comes in to the water-heater closet from the roof and comes out an outlet in the wall of the closet, but there is a 4-way splitter in ...
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How to remove old wires of utility companies
I have a bunch of old wires between my house and a pole across the street. How do I get rid of them? I don't even know what companies they belong to. I only know that I use the electricity cable ...
