Ed -

You're absolutely right - about everything - but certainly about it not being graceful.

The job, as I recall was in the home of an owner of a company who's business we had interconnected. The salesman went out, saw the job and decided that it was a straight swap, because the guy had 1A2 in the house.

Not so. He had 1A, with no lamps. Some stations were wired with 25 pair and some with only 6 pair (And some with 12 pair and some with 16 pair! [which I've never seen before or since]). We were able to rewire some stations (Unobtrusively) in this mansion on Long Island's Gold Coast, but the three 6 pair stations (which had 6 pair jacks - also something almost never seen in those days!) were inaccessible.

So we came up with a creative solution - that worked. Not graceful, but it worked and I got out of the house with my skin.

Sam

"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"