In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

The difference is that YOU would know it *is* possible and have to find the details. He thought it *impossible*. There is a big difference

...or possibly not.
It's easy to be smug, but I bet the engineer can do stuff that many couldn't. Cut off a 100pr heat shrink joint, clear the fault and reclose it, all whilst doubled over in the rain.

I was not being disparaging towards the engineer and apologise if that is how my prose came across. I am *full* of respect for those craftsmen. However, I do take issue with that engineer's training or lack of it.

DrT

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Cut off a 100pr heat shrink joint, clear the fault

Or possibly not.

Don't be so sensitive- I've no problems with BT engineers as a whole, BT as an organisation may be a different matter.

I was not being disparaging towards the engineer and apologise if that is how my prose came across. I am *full* of respect for those craftsmen. However, I do take issue with that engineer's training or lack of it.

Thank you.

Don't be so sensitive- I've no problems with BT engineers as a whole

OK.

TBH I have to be fairly thick skinned to do my job and be a regular user of this forum. It's amazing the almost pathological hatred BT as a company, can produce in some.

I have become inured to it, in the most part, but some times a direct attack on some miserable old scrote, like myself, just has to be defended.

TalkTalk only charge £25 for the installation and send out a new router free.

Things are looking up then, that's three including BT - covering a huge chunk of the population.

>>Cut off a 100pr heat shrink joint, clear the fault and reclose it

Ah. Just the small stuff eh.

In reply to a post by RandomJointer:

>>Cut off a 100pr heat shrink joint, clear the fault and reclose it

Ah. Just the small stuff eh.

Ah, but Zarjaz's jointing is accurate and lines end up where they are supposed to - unlike someone else's efforts which at the best of time can be described as Random!

... and to be fair, I don't three tonners on site with at least one working tea kit in the back, and two colleagues for moral support.

Now now. My cables may ring wrong but they are nicely balanced.

And one of those tonners is the Precision Testing Officer and he don't make his own joints or his own tea.

Edited by deleted (Wed 17-Aug-11 20:30:21)