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In hind sight, if there was a gap between the plywood and the cinderblock wall, a few access holes could have been punched into the wood under the 66 blocks, the station wiring dropped down behind the board and then pulled through.

That's what I ended up doing with my church's install (it took me only 2->3 years to figure it out. :scratch: )

Carl, by chance did you do the Buffalo Wild Wings on Central in Sylvania? I go there most Tuesdays for wing night!

Of course. That was #4 (Maumee/Defiance/BG/Sylvania/Perrysburg/Oregon).
This was the first of the new style where I put a 24 port switch(es) instead of cheaply using 8 port jobs. The phone system is a TA-624 (now using 824's) and I think they still have the wall phones square and securely mounted to the walls :-)

If you want the 40 cent tour (same price as the wings), you can ask a manager (Dave or Michelle tonight) to see the office and the phone system.
Do it before you're drunk and they'll let you. I won't be there, I hang out in BG or Perrysburg or Maumee.

Carl

The exposed cable to the blocks is not much better than the phone vendor's work. For an exposed backboard, especially in a warehouse with plenty of space to work, at least try to dress and straighten the outside cables for a clean look.

I'll have to look at the phones next time I go there. Remember I'm not 21 so I wouldn't be drinking there
I probably could have put some rings on the horizontal run to the blocks.

Well guys, I appreciate all the comments

Jeff, on future wiring jobs, if you're not going to be the person installing the phone system and network equipment, don't give them the option of screwing up your backboard.

Remove those mushrooms under the blocks, and set up a proper (level!) jumper run ABOVE the blocks. (Gravity is your friend when running jumpers.) Include wire managers on the patch panels, perhaps even get a deeper bracket so that they can mount their switch on it. Set up a block for dial tone, so that there are bridge clips down the center for troubleshooting. Do everything you can to keep them from making a mess.

Not bad for the 1st time out, but you want to be proud of it when they are done too!!

....and take some of that stuff out of your tool belt, your going blow out your hips by time your 25, carry what you need, leave the rest on the trunk.

Actually, I got a new tool case, not using the bag anymore. Besides, I end up putting tools in my pockets when I am working

This is one of the many I have had to straighten out behind our network guys. This is the before I started picture. It’s going to be hard to top this on the ugly scale guys…




This was a week later.



I wall mounted the Cisco switch and also placed all the network cables on a wall mount bracket. This will give you a picture of what they are talking about on your cables too Jeff. The cables come down the side through D-Rings and up and under the blocks. Then the spool boards on top for neat jumpers.

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