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You should set up a time lapse camera to take a picture of that board once a day. If you stack a months worth of prints and flip them with your thumb real fast we can see it morph back to before you were there. :bang:

-Hal

You can just not make this stuff up.

How about when the CG mounts his rack right in front of the MDF, or should I just start a new thread?

:bang:

Yep. Just happened to me. CG's from the clients New York HQ come down and install enclosed racks (the big mothers with built-in A/C) LESS THAN 12" from the MDF. What's the thickness of an MICS? About 7"? So...I cannot even open the door to check the lights on the T-1 card, let alone change something out. I told the client I'll be back when they have the racks moved.

I had one where the "VG" (that's VIDEO GUY) mounted his rack right in front of the 66 block that all of the jacks were cabled to. Then, to make matters worse, they connected their equipment (set on a shelf in the rack) to the 66 block with very short cables (they used bulk cat5 cable so they COULD have made them longer), so you couldn't possibly move the rack out of the way (it was on casters) without making a mess.

Oh, these guys claimed to be "engineers", too.

I did that to myself in that I mounted a rack perpendicular to the frame because the video guy was supposed to put his cabinet BEHIND the phone system and TV rack. My 3 switches and router mounted in the top 1/4 of the rack and the phone system mounted in the bottom with the frame exactly to the right of the open space so I could get access to the first row of blocks.

Then the video guy mounted an agile processor in the space, and one of the Cisco managed switches died so they mounted a replacement in the open space and, next thing you know, I have hardware and patch cords in front of the blocks.

To make matters worse, the cabinet didn't fit benind the rack so he just wheeled it next to the 2 racks and it covers up the fire alarm system.

That was the last time I ever did that to myself.

Carl

Choo Choo Charlie was an engineer too!

Once upon a time there was an engineer
Choo Choo Charlie was his name, we hear.
He had an engine and he sure had fun
He used Good & Plenty candy to make his train run.
Charlie says "Love my Good & Plenty!"
Charlie says "Really rings my bell!"
Charlie says "Love my Good & Plenty!"
Don't know any other candy that I love so well!
:db: :db: :banana: :banana: :db: :banana: :db: :banana:

We sold a phone system to a couple building a multi million dollar home. They said their GC would cable the house and my company would terminate all cables at the MDF only. When it came time to hang the system and terminate the cables in the basement I noticed all the station cables were short, so short the MDF had to be hung at top of the wall , this basement had 10' walls. The GC told me he did like wasting cable and pulling the cable to the floor would have been to much of a waste. When I asked him if any one of those cables had to be replaced because they were to short what is more expensive the cable or labor, boy did he get pissed.

I had an new apartment block a couple of years ago that the cables were just barely out of the ceiling. Not even enough for a terminal block so I had to beanie them all.

Dave

Check this handy work out! If this is our competition then we are in TROUBLE!
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18886458-Phone-wiring-block