I don't know about anyone else, but I don't mind beanies. Personally, I prefer to use the variety of scotchlocks, but beanies can definitely be convenient.
I think the part about looking down on beanies is because they seem to be used almost universally used by alarm installers to improperly install their phone connections, rather than simply for a splice. I don't know why alarm installers would even need to splice if a place has a crossconnect frame. Put the 31X down on the 66 block like the rest of the station cable and connect accordingly. I usually cover the input to the RJ31X on the 66 block with red plastic markers (usually "recovered" from the LEC) so it will stand out as a special point when other techs are working on the frame. You can see one of my installs where I did this at http://www.tippenring.com/images/telecom/sto/DSCF0581.JPG. Look at the top block in the 4th column. (In my defense, we didn't install this originally, and they didn't want to fix the cabling when we installed the new system, so ). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "kxthelp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:14 PM Subject: KX-T: Beanies confessions | I, too, use beanies regularly and never seem to have a problem with them. | (I never realized they were looked down upon ) . | | The UG UR and UY connectors are great too (especially UG for splicing to an | existing cable), but I have had a number of UG connectors fall apart, the | green part would fall out. | | Charles _________________________________________________________________ KX-T Mailing list --- http://kxthelp.com/ Subscription changes: http://kxthelp.com/mailman/listinfo/kxt
