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Arthur-
I remember the trick with using your finger to run a house count. With the ubiquitousness of wands, those tricks vanished quickly.
When I got my hands on my first electronic toner my 81 buzzer went to the basement, never to be seen again.
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Originally posted by hbiss:
The audio source can also be a 6 volt dry cell and a doorbell buzzer. The old Western Electric gray 81A buzzer was two D cells and an intercom buzzer.
Ah, why didn't I say that? A buzzer was the first "toner". Matter of fact many old timers still call a tone generator a "buzzer".
-Hal LOL, just bought an 81A on fleabay - surprised the heck out of me when I openend it up to put in batteries and saw how simple it was! 
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In this situation, I'd hook up a 24vac source to one end of the cable, then go to the remote end and touch each bare cable with the tip of your tongue.
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Danny sounds like the best way to go :rofl: 
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Just hope Danny remembers "safety 1st" and lets his (fill in the blank) hang into a pail of water so he's properly "grounded". :rofl:
Scientists say that the universe is made up of Protons, Neutron & Electrons. They forgot "Morons".
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Thank you everyone for the the great discussion. I've done Artur's method a couple of times, but that required the volt meter which I had access to at that time. There was a time when I had to make a loopback adapter to see which port on the switch would light up, doesn't work all the time on gigabit switches though, and can be time consuming. Trying to take a note of which ports are active or inactive before the loopback adapter is plugged in, saves a little headache, but it is still can get challenging to to it with no help on the other end of the cable. I've noticed when sometimes toning a cable that is connected to the gigabit switch can be a pain, but with my Ideal VDV Multimedia Cable Tester I am able to select which pairs, or individual pins can be toned and that allows me to fairly quickly find the right cable.
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You won't get good tone if you're still plugged into the switch, at least in my experience.
Jeff Moss
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I just use a cat 5 module with a pair of wires punched on pins 1 and 8. Then just clip my toner on the wire and a patch cord into the module from the wire being traced. Works fine for me.
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