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How is the power pole IN the ceiling? LOL

Pictures as promised: Cabling Demo and KSU's old home.

Jeff, the power-pole is tywrap'ed horizontally to a roof truss about eight feet above the drop ceiling. This puts it at the level of the 8' fluorescent light fixtures (with lamps) above the ceiling that don't work.

Man, that's a lot of stuff

Man it looks great to me. I wish I had that much equipment to put up.... mine is a bit smaller in scope. Thinking about maybe moving my alarm panel over to where my 1A2 will be. Anyway, great job!

Wow, that's exactly how NOT to install equipment. That's surely a good training set of pictures. Everything that you see in them is what should NOT be done.

To be fair, the original installation, the 4 66B blocks to the left on the frame, are pretty good. It looks like the 3rd row of blocks, the 66M's that don't line up were added by someone else. There are no spools in that row and the original installer may have left the space for expansion and someone else came along and slapped a 66M block and tie cable into the space. It's the only set of blocks that are top fed. It also looks like the 66M blocks undderneath the B blocks don't belong as they are just stabbed in.

The 3 rows of M blocks on the right were probably from the original installation as they are also consistent with the two rows on the left.

I'm guessing it took several years and hands to get to this condition.

Carl

But it is a good example as to why the factory colored backboards were brought into use.

Oh stop it Bill! Some of us didn't have colored backboards in our practices. Come to think of it, we didn't have 584C panels either. I think 17A1 comes to mind......


Carl

Just wanted to add that in my last post, I was referring to the new job.... not the "cabling demo" post....

Look at the bright side - I bet after you get the other 90% ripped out, you can get a pretty good price for the scrap copper. Then again, I don't know if they give less for it being insulated.

And as far as the power pole in the ceiling, I think I figured that one out. Did a bit of googling, and found a pic of the original owners of the building:

https://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5315/ownersew6.jpg

Matt, you realize that if Eddie Albert were still alive, you'd be hit with a defamation of character law suit so fast, your head wouldn't have time to swim, it would be too busy drowning! John C. (Not Garand)