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Somehow I have managed to remember the color code...even though I don't use it every day, it's one of those things that sticks with me.

....just use BIX blocks. No problem, right Canucks??!! :thumb:

USE KRONE BLOCKS LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES.

Wow yelling and a topic change. It's amazing I can still hear and understand this thread. (sarcasm)

What is amazing is that this has been going for a month.

( No Sarcasm )

I think we should go back to solder terminals. Or at least wire wrap.

Those were manly connections.

Sam

Yeah amen to the solder blocks and 30d and 31d blocks; lots of money to be made terminating those.(time)

We had another completely different mnemonic for that one. Probably considered most "un-PC" these days though.

Funnily enough, I never had any trouble memorizing cable codes, resistor color codes, or anything else along those lines, and I didn't learn many of the memory aids until after I already knew the sequences off by heart.

I still have an old GPO wirewrap tool somewhere. 25 years ago in BT wiring an offcut of anything from 25 to 100-pair cable to solder-tag MDF blocks on a mock-up frame was still standard apprentice fare. And properly lacing everything down the side of the frame too.

I just had to buy a wirewrap tool today because I'm installing a Bogen intercom system on Monday which will include about 200 wirewrap terminals... I looked everywhere for mine but couldn't find it - thank goodness we've got an old-school privately owned Radio Shack nearby, where I found one in stock for $6.99. It's not fancy, but it'll do..

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