Re: For everyone talking about cutting ties

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Aug 15, 2019, 12:44 PM

Weeellllll-1st they have a service guy come out to look and says "Yup-your cable is cut" Then-"I'll have to fill out a work order to have that fixed" 2 weeks later a group of non english speaking hispanics come to your house with a ditch witch. The utilities have been marked but the grouchy old white guy foreman who speaks no spanish doesn't tell them what those marks are. I get home, look out a back window-yell "Holy s***-stop!" only to be greated by the big "POW!" where they cut the electric line. Then the Duke Power guy comes out and he's PO'D because they took out like 2 neighborhoods and he had to go flip on the secondary breakers which numbered over 30. He fixed the electric line (Very good cusser I may say. His inflections were priceless). The Charter pro's threw the cable line on the ground, draped it over a fence and a service guy connected it. 6 months later after calling a dozen times, Charter finally came and buried the cable with a hand shovel-a freaking hand shovel!

Sorry-but hopefully you'll do better. If they don't speak english, do not let them on your property. Nothing against Hispanic workers at all(In fact, they are a hard working, non complaining bunch of folks) but this is one of those times where communication is essential. If the foreman acts like his IQ will never surpass 2 digits, don't let him on either.Grouchy redneck speak and Spanish just don't do the trick.

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Clover, I did the same thing several years ago and it is possible to splice it back together temporarily.

There is a solid copper wire in the center insulated by a plastic coating. Outside of that, there is a woven aluminum shield with another layer of insulation outside of that. Strip back the outer insulation, then the woven shield (strip it back and do not remove it) and then strip back the insulation around the solid copper wire. Hopefully you can get a little slack so you can twist the two ends of the copper wire together. Then wrap it tightly with electrical tape. Pull the woven shielding over the tape so that the two ends make good contact and wrap this with electrical tape.

If you cannot get enough slack to twist the copper wires together, get a short piece of copper wire from Lowes or somewhere to splice in between.

I did this and surprisingly it worked with no degradation of quality until it could be repaired properly.

For everyone talking about cutting ties